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

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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

Aristotle

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

10.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Reed, Scott

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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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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Friedsam, Michael

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Pilon, Rich

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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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

Seneca

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

Lee, Bruce