Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Collier, Robert

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

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

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Insull, Samuel

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Menander of Athens

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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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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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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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Seneca

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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

Mcdonald, John

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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There is no achievement without goals.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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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

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

Kissinger, Henry