Motivational Quotes

Goals

It is better to finish something than begin.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Aristotle

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

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

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collier, Robert

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

Insull, Samuel

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

Winfrey, Oprah

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert 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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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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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.

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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Brown, Les

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Walsh, Basil S.

23.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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 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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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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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Ziglar, Zig

32.

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

Menander of Athens

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

37.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

DeFrantz, Anita

39.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.