Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Josefowitz, Natasha

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

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

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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

Mcdonald, John

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

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

Seneca

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Publilius Syrus

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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.

11.

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

12.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Proverb, English

18.

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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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 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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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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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.

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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 is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

37.

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

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

Proverb, French

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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

Ruskin, John

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

Pasteur, Louis

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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

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

DeFrantz, Anita