Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

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

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

10.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

11.

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

Browning, Robert

12.

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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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

14.

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

Proverb, French

15.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

17.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

18.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

20.

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

Brown, Les

22.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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

25.

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

Kempis, Thomas

26.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

28.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

29.

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

Kissinger, Henry

30.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Nightingale, Earl

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

41.

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

Louis Pasteur

42.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Thomas, Paul G.

45.

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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.