Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Brown, Les

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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

Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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''

10.

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

Browning, Robert

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

17.

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

18.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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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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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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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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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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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.

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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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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 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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Rockefeller, John D.

41.

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

Ruskin, John

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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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

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Nightingale, Earl

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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