Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Reed, Scott

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

DeFrantz, Anita

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

17.

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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Friedsam, Michael

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling