Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Kissinger, Henry

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.

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.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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

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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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

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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

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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 without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Friedsam, Michael

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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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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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.

28.

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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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

Maxwell Maltz

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Dewey, John

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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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

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.