Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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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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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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

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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.

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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

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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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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

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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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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