Motivational Quotes

Goals

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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

Dewey, John

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, French

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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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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Demille, Nelson

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pilon, Rich

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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

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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

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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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 don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Publilius Syrus