Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

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

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Seneca

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Noble, Charles C.

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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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

Caddy, Eileen

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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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

Browning, Robert

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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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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Patton, George S.

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

Collier, Robert

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

37.

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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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

42.

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

43.

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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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 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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)