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

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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

Caddy, Eileen

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Ruskin, John

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, French

10.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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

Dewey, John

21.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Browning, Robert

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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Publilius Syrus

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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

33.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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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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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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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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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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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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