Motivational Quotes

Goals

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Goals

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Jackson, Bo

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

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

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

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

Reed, Scott

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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.

11.

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

Berra, Yogi

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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Proverb, French

18.

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

19.

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

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

24.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aristotle

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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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.

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

Menander of Athens

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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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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Patton, George S.

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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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

Brown, Les

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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