Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Dewey, John

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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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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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.