Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Austin, Tracy

Best Quotes about Goals

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Proverb, French

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

Patton, George S.

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

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Dewey, John

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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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Pilon, Rich

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Prior, Matthew

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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.