Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Robert Heinlein

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Brown, Les

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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.

You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

18.

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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

Reed, Scott

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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

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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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 distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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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

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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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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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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

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

Jackson, Bo

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre