Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Demille, Nelson

Best Quotes about Goals

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Proverb, English

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Dewey, John

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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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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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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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

Pasteur, Louis

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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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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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

Pilon, Rich

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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

23.

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

Reed, Scott

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

Seneca

28.

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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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

31.

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

33.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

34.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

35.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Browning, Robert

40.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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!

44.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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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.

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.