Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Prior, Matthew

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Laurence, Peter

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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

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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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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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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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.

Norman, Greg

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

Seneca

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Brown, Les

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Menander of Athens

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Collier, Robert

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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

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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 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.