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 have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Seneca

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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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''

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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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Nightingale, Earl

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Lake, Ricki

33.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Pilon, Rich

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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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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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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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