Motivational Quotes

Goals

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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.

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

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

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Carlson, Curtis

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

Prior, Matthew

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Christina, Queen

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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

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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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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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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Aristotle

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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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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von