Motivational Quotes

Goals

Goals determine what you're going to be.

- Erving, Julius

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Louis Pasteur

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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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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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 can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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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!

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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Collier, Robert

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

Patton, George S.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Proverb, French

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

Nightingale, Earl

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Friedsam, Michael

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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