Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Goals

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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.

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

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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

10.

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Pasteur, Louis

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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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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

Berra, Yogi

17.

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

18.

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

19.

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

20.

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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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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

24.

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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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

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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

28.

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

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

30.

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

Schwartz, David J.

31.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

32.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

33.

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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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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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

36.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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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

41.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

42.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

48.

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

Pilon, Rich

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

50.

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian