Motivational Quotes

Goals

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

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

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, French

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

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

10.

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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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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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

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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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 most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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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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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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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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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Seneca

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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!

40.

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

Browning, Robert

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dewey, John

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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

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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