Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Menander of Athens

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

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

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

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Publilius Syrus

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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Reed, Scott

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

Demille, Nelson

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

Dewey, John

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kissinger, Henry

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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