Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Goals

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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

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

Demille, Nelson

Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

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

12.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Jackson, Bo

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Maxwell Maltz

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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 goal is a dream with a deadline.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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 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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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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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

37.

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

Collier, Robert

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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kissinger, Henry