Motivational Quotes

Goals

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

- Johnson, Percy H.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Seneca

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

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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''

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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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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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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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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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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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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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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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kuhn, Maggie

28.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Menander of Athens

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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.

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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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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Collier, Robert

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.