Motivational Quotes

Goals

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

- Anderson, Greg

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Collier, Robert

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

Brown, Les

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Dewey, John

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

Proverb, French

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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Mcdonald, John

18.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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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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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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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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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browning, Robert

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

Maxwell Maltz

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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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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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