Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Carlson, Curtis

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Ziglar, Zig

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

10.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

11.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

21.

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

Austin, Tracy

22.

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

Caddy, Eileen

23.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

25.

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

26.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

27.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

28.

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

Lake, Ricki

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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

30.

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

31.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

34.

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

35.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

36.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

37.

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

42.

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)

43.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

45.

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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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''

47.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

48.

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

Jackson, Bo

49.

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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.