Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Austin, Tracy

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

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Menander of Athens

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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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Lake, Ricki

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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

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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Maxwell Maltz

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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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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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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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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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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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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson