Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Brown, Les

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

10.

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

11.

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

Dewey, John

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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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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Mcdonald, John

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The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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

Seneca

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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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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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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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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

30.

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.

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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Browning, Robert

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