Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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.

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Seneca

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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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Denis Watley

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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Pilon, Rich

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.