Motivational Quotes

Goals

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

- Konigsburg, E. L.

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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

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

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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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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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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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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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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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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

Prior, Matthew

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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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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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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.