Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Berra, Yogi

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Lee, Bruce

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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 with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Insull, Samuel

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

Seneca

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

Reed, Scott

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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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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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Louis Pasteur

36.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Browning, Robert

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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