Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Proverb, English

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Louis Pasteur

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

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

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Maxwell Maltz

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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Reed, Scott

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Seneca

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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 some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Laurence, Peter

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les