Motivational Quotes

Goals

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.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Pilon, Rich

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, English

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

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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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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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

Proverb, French

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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Mayes, Benjamin E.

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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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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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

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Reed, Scott

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Pasteur, Louis

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Demille, Nelson

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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.