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

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Patton, George S.

Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Menander of Athens

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

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

Proverb, French

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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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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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Brown, Les

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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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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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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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