Motivational Quotes

Goals

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

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

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

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Jackson, Bo

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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

Browning, Robert

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Dewey, John

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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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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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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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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