Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Maxwell Maltz

Best Quotes about Goals

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Friedsam, Michael

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Noble, Charles C.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

Demille, Nelson

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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collier, Robert

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Dewey, John

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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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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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson