Motivational Quotes

Goals

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Goals

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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)

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

Walsh, Basil S.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Patton, George S.

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

Carlson, Curtis

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

Pasteur, Louis

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

10.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

11.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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

29.

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 get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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 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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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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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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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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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

45.

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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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Brown, Les

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius