Motivational Quotes

Goals

It is better to finish something than begin.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Goals

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Maxwell Maltz

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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Patton, George S.

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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Proverb, English

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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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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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Browning, Robert

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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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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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 want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Seneca

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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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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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)

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian