Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Lake, Ricki

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Browning, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

26.

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Patton, George S.

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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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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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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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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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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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