Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Thomas, Paul G.

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Demille, Nelson

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Seneca

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Menander of Athens

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Reed, Scott

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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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

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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 I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand