Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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''

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

Pilon, Rich

You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Lake, Ricki

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

Laurence, Peter

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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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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

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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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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 necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Patton, George S.

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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 just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Jackson, Bo

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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

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

Mcdonald, John

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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 you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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.