Motivational Quotes

Goals

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Maxwell Maltz

A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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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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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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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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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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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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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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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

Stone, W. Clement

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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Proverb, French

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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