Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Reed, Scott

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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

Dewey, John

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Collier, Robert

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

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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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

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Jackson, Bo

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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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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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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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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.

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

Mcdonald, John

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Browning, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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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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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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

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