Motivational Quotes

Goals

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Lee, Bruce

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Seneca

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

11.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

12.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

13.

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

Mcdonald, John

16.

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

Dewey, John

17.

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

18.

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

Noble, Charles C.

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

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

21.

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

22.

Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

23.

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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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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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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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

27.

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

28.

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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

30.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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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.

33.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

34.

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

Seneca

35.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

39.

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

40.

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

Aristotle

42.

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

43.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

44.

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

Browning, Robert

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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

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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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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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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