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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Louis Pasteur

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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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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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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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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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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

18.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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You get what you set out to do.

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

Lee, Bruce

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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dewey, John

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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

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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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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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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 goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brown, Les

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

40.

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

Reed, Scott

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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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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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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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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