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

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

Proverb, English

The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Nightingale, Earl

Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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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.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Seneca

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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

Prior, Matthew

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.