Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Patton, George S.

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

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Johnson, Percy H.

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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.

13.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

17.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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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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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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

Louis Pasteur

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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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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

26.

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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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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

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

Lee, Bruce

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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

43.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.