Motivational Quotes

Goals

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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Best Quotes about Goals

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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)

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Prior, Matthew

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Percy H.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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 a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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

Publilius Syrus

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Carroll, Lewis

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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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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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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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