Motivational Quotes

Goals

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

- Mcdonald, John

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Laurence, Peter

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

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

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

Brown, Les

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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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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

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

Prior, Matthew

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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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.

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

Browning, Robert

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pilon, Rich

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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