Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Josefowitz, Natasha

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Laurence, Peter

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

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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

Berra, Yogi

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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

12.

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Prior, Matthew

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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

Proverb, French

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

Pilon, Rich

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Proverb, English

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

Austin, Tracy

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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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.