Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Friedsam, Michael

Best Quotes about Goals

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

Reed, Scott

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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''

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

Publilius Syrus

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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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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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Collier, Robert

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

Friedsam, Michael

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Pasteur, Louis

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.