Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Schwartz, David J.

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

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

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

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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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 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

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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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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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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Jackson, Bo

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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there