Motivational Quotes

Goals

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Jackson, Bo

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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

Proverb, French

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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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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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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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Dewey, John

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon