Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Pasteur, Louis

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Dewey, John

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

Walsh, Basil S.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

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!

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

Menander of Athens

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

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Brown, Les

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Seneca

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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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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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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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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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.