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

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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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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.

14.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Menander of Athens

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

27.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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

Seneca

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita