Motivational Quotes

Goals

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

- Austin, Tracy

Best Quotes about Goals

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick