Motivational Quotes

Goals

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.

Best Quotes about Goals

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Robert Heinlein

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Seneca

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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

Reed, Scott

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Proverb, English

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

Noble, Charles C.

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Patton, George S.

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

Louis Pasteur

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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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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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.