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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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.

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

Collier, Robert

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Johnson, Percy H.

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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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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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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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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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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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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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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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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 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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

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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