Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Dewey, John

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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

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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

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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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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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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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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Austin, Tracy

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Menander of Athens

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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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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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Seneca

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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

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