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

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

Jackson, Bo

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

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

Demille, Nelson

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

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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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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 most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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.

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Dewey, John

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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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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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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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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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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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Pilon, Rich

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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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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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.