Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Reed, Scott

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Publilius Syrus

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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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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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Seneca

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Dewey, John

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

Proverb, English

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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Browning, Robert

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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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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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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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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

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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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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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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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 can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Jackson, Bo