Motivational Quotes

Goals

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Friedsam, Michael

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Aristotle

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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.

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

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

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 goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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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

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

Louis Pasteur

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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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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

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

Pasteur, Louis

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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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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 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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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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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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

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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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