Motivational Quotes

Goals

You get what you set out to do.

- Hanson, John

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pilon, Rich

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Seneca

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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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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Austin, Tracy

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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.