Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Otto, Herbert A.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

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

Prior, Matthew

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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)

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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.

28.

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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Seneca

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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

Schwartz, David J.