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

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Browning, Robert

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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Robbins, Anthony

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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

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

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

Lake, Ricki

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Jackson, Bo

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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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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

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis