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 is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

Austin, Tracy

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Pilon, Rich

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

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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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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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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Brown, Les

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

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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

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

Insull, Samuel

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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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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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand