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

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

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''

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

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

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Collier, Robert

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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

Laurence, Peter

17.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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 get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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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 distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Robbins, Anthony

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Prior, Matthew

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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