Motivational Quotes

Goals

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Publilius Syrus

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Austin, Tracy

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, English

11.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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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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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 goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Brown, Les

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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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

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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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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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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

25.

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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

27.

Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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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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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Walsh, Basil S.

37.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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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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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

47.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Otto, Herbert A.