Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Patton, George S.

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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

10.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

11.

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

12.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

13.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

14.

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

Insull, Samuel

15.

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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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.

17.

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!

18.

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

24.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Browning, Robert

27.

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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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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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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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 don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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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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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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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

40.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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 goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, English

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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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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

47.

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

Collier, Robert

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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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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 first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.