Motivational Quotes

Goals

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

- Ross, Diana

Best Quotes about Goals

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Robert Heinlein

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

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

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)

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

Prior, Matthew

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Dewey, John

10.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

11.

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

12.

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

13.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Robbins, Anthony

15.

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

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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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

Seneca

18.

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Seneca

20.

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

Pilon, Rich

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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

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carroll, Lewis

24.

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

25.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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

30.

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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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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

DeFrantz, Anita

33.

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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, English

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Kissinger, Henry

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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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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

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Demille, Nelson