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

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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.

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

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Brown, Les

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Seneca

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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

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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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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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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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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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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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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Demille, Nelson

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Kempis, Thomas

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Johnson, Percy H.