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

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Seneca

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

Browning, Robert

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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

Collier, Robert

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Seneca

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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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

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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

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

Brown, Les

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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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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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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.