Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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

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

Christina, Queen

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Browning, Robert

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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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

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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

Proverb, English

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.