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

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

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

Proverb, French

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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)

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

Berra, Yogi

This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Seneca

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

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

10.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

11.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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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

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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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

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Proverb, English

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

Austin, Tracy

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

27.

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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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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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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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brown, Les

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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Kissinger, Henry