Motivational Quotes

Goals

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

- Laurence, Peter

Best Quotes about Goals

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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

Lake, Ricki

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

Aristotle

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Maxwell Maltz

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Brown, Les

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Pilon, Rich

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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

Berra, Yogi

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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 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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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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