Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

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

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

Pasteur, Louis

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

Mcdonald, John

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Brown, Les

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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

Caddy, Eileen

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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Publilius Syrus

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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

Seneca

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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 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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

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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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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

Menander of Athens

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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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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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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

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

Austin, Tracy

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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