Motivational Quotes

Goals

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

- Demille, Nelson

Best Quotes about Goals

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''

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Walsh, Basil S.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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

Pasteur, Louis

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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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

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

Proverb, English

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

Kissinger, Henry

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

Patton, George S.

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, French

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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

Collier, Robert