Motivational Quotes

Goals

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Robbins, Anthony

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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''

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

Pilon, Rich

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Publilius Syrus

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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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.

28.

A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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

Austin, Tracy

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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

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

32.

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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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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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

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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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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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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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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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

Maxwell Maltz

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.