Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Pasteur, Louis

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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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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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Pilon, Rich

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Laurence, Peter

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Proverb, French

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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Carroll, Lewis

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

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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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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