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

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

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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

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

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Percy H.

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

Proverb, French

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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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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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

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

Seneca

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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.