Motivational Quotes

Goals

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

- Konigsburg, E. L.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Lake, Ricki

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

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

Louis Pasteur

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

13.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

14.

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

Robbins, Anthony

15.

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

16.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

17.

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

18.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

19.

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

20.

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

Austin, Tracy

21.

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

22.

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

23.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

24.

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

25.

Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

26.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

27.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

32.

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

Demille, Nelson

33.

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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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

35.

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

36.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

38.

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

Collier, Robert

39.

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

Caddy, Eileen

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Stone, W. Clement

43.

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

44.

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

Pilon, Rich

45.

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

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

Robert Heinlein

48.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

49.

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.

50.

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

Brown, Les