Motivational Quotes

Goals

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

11.

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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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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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''

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Seneca

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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

Browning, Robert

34.

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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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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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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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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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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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, English

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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.