Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Josefowitz, Natasha

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Christina, Queen

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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Patton, George S.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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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

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, English

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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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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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

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Browning, Robert

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Pilon, Rich

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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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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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio