Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Josefowitz, Natasha

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

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Ruskin, John

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

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Dewey, John

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Patton, George S.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Browning, Robert

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

Christina, Queen

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Seneca

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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

Lee, Bruce

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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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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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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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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

Kissinger, Henry

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Robbins, Anthony

48.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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