Motivational Quotes

Goals

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Proverb, French

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Maxwell Maltz

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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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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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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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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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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

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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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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Pilon, Rich

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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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

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

Browning, Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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