Motivational Quotes

Goals

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

- Morgan, John Pierpont

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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

Otto, Herbert 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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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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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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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mcdonald, John

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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 we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Seneca

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Schwartz, David J.