Motivational Quotes

Goals

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about 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

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Collier, Robert

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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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

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Publilius Syrus

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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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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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