Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Publilius Syrus

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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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Reed, Scott

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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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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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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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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''

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Brown, Les

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

Demille, Nelson

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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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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, French

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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Seneca

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

Ziglar, Zig

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Jackson, Bo

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas