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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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.

A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Pilon, Rich

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

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jackson, Bo

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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil 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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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Proverb, English

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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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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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!

35.

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

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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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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 the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Caddy, Eileen

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Dewey, John

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Otto, Herbert A.