Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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)

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.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Seneca

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

15.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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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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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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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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Thomas, Kurt

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Proverb, French

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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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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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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