Motivational Quotes

Goals

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

- Foch, Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Austin, Tracy

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Publilius Syrus

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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

28.

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

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

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

Proverb, French

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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

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Collier, Robert

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Menander of Athens

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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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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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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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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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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson