Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Kuhn, Maggie

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

12.

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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

14.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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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

17.

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

18.

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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

Kissinger, Henry

23.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

24.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

25.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

26.

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

27.

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!

28.

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

29.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

30.

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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

Jackson, Bo

32.

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

Austin, Tracy

33.

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

Carroll, Lewis

34.

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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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Ruskin, John