Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Collier, Robert

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.

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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

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

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

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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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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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

22.

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

Dewey, John

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Laurence, Peter

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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 favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

42.

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

Browning, Robert

43.

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

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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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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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Pilon, Rich

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