Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Austin, Tracy

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

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Jackson, Bo

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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

11.

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

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Browning, Robert

15.

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

Stone, W. Clement

18.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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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 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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Collier, Robert

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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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.

35.

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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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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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!