Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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

Carlson, Curtis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Collier, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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

Menander of Athens

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.