Motivational Quotes

Goals

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''

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Pasteur, Louis

Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Walsh, Basil S.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

10.

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

11.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Browning, Robert

16.

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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

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

Dewey, John

21.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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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

24.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

25.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

26.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

31.

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

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

Carlson, Curtis

35.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

36.

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Aristotle

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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

42.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

47.

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

Pilon, Rich

48.

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

Demille, Nelson

49.

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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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.