Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Kuhn, Maggie

Best Quotes about Goals

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Brown, Les

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

Collier, Robert

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

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Otto, Herbert A.

11.

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

Lee, Bruce

12.

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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

23.

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

27.

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

Ziglar, Zig

28.

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

Browning, Robert

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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

30.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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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

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

36.

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

Proverb, English

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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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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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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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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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

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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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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

48.

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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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

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward