Motivational Quotes

Goals

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Goals

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

11.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

12.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

17.

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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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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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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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

25.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Percy H.

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

Caddy, Eileen

31.

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

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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

33.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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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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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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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, English

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

47.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.