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

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

Brown, Les

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.

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

Publilius Syrus

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Carlyle, Thomas

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Seneca

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Stone, W. Clement

27.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Dewey, John

29.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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 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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

Collier, Robert

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

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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.

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von