Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Proverb, French

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)

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

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.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Maxwell Maltz

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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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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Browning, Robert

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Austin, Tracy

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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Patton, George S.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Proverb, English

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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Seneca

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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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 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