Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Louis Pasteur

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Nightingale, Earl

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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

Jackson, Bo

10.

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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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

14.

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

15.

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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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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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

18.

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

Robbins, Anthony

19.

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!

20.

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

Reed, Scott

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

Browning, Robert

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

28.

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

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Menander of Athens

31.

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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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

33.

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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Seneca

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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.

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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

Dewey, John

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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.