Motivational Quotes

Goals

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

- Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Best Quotes about Goals

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Johnson, Percy H.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

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.

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

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schwartz, David J.

10.

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

11.

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

Stone, W. Clement

12.

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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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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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

15.

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.

16.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browning, Robert

18.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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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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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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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Seneca

31.

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

Caddy, Eileen

32.

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

33.

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

Austin, Tracy

34.

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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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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.

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Maxwell Maltz

41.

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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

44.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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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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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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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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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