Motivational Quotes

Goals

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)

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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

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

Pasteur, Louis

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Maxwell Maltz

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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

Proverb, English

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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

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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

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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.

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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.