Motivational Quotes

Goals

There is no achievement without goals.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Schuller, Robert H.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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

Dewey, John

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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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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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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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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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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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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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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Pilon, Rich

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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

Walsh, Basil S.