Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Otto, Herbert A.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Mcdonald, John

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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

Collier, Robert

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Caddy, Eileen

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Dewey, John

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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''

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Brown, Les

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Stone, W. Clement

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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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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 care where you're going any road will get you there

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

Carroll, Lewis