Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Demille, Nelson

Best Quotes about Goals

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Reed, Scott

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Johnson, Percy H.

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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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Dewey, John

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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

Proverb, French

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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 person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. 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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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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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.

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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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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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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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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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Christina, Queen

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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.