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

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

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

Reed, Scott

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

Collier, Robert

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Johnson, Percy H.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Carlson, Curtis

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

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

12.

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

Patton, George S.

13.

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Brown, Les

15.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

16.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

18.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

19.

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 get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

21.

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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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.

23.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

25.

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

Christina, Queen

26.

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

27.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

28.

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

29.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

30.

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

Dewey, John

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

32.

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

33.

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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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

35.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

37.

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

38.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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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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

43.

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

Seneca

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

Demille, Nelson

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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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

50.

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