Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Reed, Scott

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Seneca

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Proverb, English

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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

Walsh, Basil S.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

10.

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

Maxwell Maltz

11.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

12.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

13.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

14.

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

15.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

16.

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

17.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

19.

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

20.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

21.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

22.

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.

23.

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

Lee, Bruce

24.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

25.

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

26.

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

Kissinger, Henry

27.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

29.

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

Brown, Les

30.

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

31.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

33.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

34.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

35.

The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

36.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

37.

The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

41.

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

Dewey, John

42.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

43.

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

Publilius Syrus

44.

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

45.

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

46.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

47.

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

48.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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