Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Louis Pasteur

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

DeFrantz, Anita

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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)

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

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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 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

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

Robert Heinlein

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

Mcdonald, John

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Browning, Robert

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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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 want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Dewey, John

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Reed, Scott

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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