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

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

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

Menander of Athens

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

Maxwell Maltz

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)

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Reed, Scott

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lee, Bruce

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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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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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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.

Fuqua, John

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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.

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

Lake, Ricki