Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about 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

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Laurence, Peter

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

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

Austin, Tracy

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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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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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Reed, Scott

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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

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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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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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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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

Jackson, Bo

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Seneca

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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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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

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

Carlson, Curtis

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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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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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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robert Heinlein

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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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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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De