Motivational Quotes

Goals

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Goals

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Stone, W. Clement

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

11.

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

12.

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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The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Laurence, Peter

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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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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

20.

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

21.

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

Kissinger, Henry

22.

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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

25.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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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

28.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

29.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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.

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

Insull, Samuel

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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

Collier, Robert

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Dewey, John

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Proverb, English

43.

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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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 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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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Aristotle