Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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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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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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 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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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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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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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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