Motivational Quotes

Goals

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robert Heinlein

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

10.

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

Berra, Yogi

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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

Seneca

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

Nightingale, Earl

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Dewey, John

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Pilon, Rich

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

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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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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.