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

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

Seneca

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

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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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

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

Proverb, French

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

Dewey, John

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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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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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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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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

Seneca

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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

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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling