Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Brown, Les

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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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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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

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Glasgow, Arnold 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.

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

Proverb, English

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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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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You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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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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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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

Dewey, John

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg