Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Carlson, Curtis

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

16.

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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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

Patton, George S.

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

41.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.