Motivational Quotes

Goals

The big thing is that you know what you want.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Winfrey, Oprah

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

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

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.

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Seneca

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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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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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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

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lee, Bruce

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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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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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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