Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Goals

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Reed, Scott

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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

11.

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

12.

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 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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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Menander of Athens

19.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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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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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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

Collier, Robert

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

Seneca

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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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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Jackson, Bo

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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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

Ziglar, Zig