Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Goals

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

If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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)

A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Seneca

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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 goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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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

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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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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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

Friedsam, Michael

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Laurence, Peter

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collier, Robert

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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Dewey, John

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.