Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Goals

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!

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

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Carroll, Lewis

No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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)

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

11.

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

12.

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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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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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Reed, Scott

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

31.

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

32.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

35.

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Demille, Nelson

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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

Caddy, Eileen

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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

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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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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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

Noble, Charles C.