Motivational Quotes

Goals

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

- Dodson, Fitzhugh

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Maxwell Maltz

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.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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 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.

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

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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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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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.

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Proverb, English

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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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

Seneca

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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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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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl