Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Winfrey, Oprah

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Maxwell Maltz

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.

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

Insull, Samuel

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Browning, Robert

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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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The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dewey, John

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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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

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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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 goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Collier, Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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