Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Patton, George S.

Best Quotes about Goals

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

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.

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

Menander of Athens

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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 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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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Prior, Matthew

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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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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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Dewey, John

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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 man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Mcdonald, John