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

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

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Proverb, French

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

Maxwell Maltz

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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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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Jackson, Bo

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Dewey, John

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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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.