Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Reed, Scott

Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Pilon, Rich

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

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

Dewey, John

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Collier, Robert

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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 whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

28.

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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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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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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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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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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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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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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 most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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.