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

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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''

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

Lake, Ricki

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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

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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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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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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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

Proverb, English

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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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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Noble, Charles C.

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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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

Nightingale, Earl

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand