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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Laurence, Peter

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

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Kafka, Franz

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

10.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

11.

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

12.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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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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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

16.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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

19.

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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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

28.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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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

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

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

Brown, Les

39.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

40.

If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nightingale, Earl

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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The big thing is that you know what you want.