Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Proverb, French

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

10.

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

Dewey, John

11.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Browning, Robert

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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Menander of Athens

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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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 soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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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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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 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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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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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Nightingale, Earl

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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein