Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dewey, John

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Seneca

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

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

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, English

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

10.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

11.

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

Brown, Les

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

Austin, Tracy

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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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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

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Noble, Charles C.

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Ziglar, Zig