Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Dewey, John

Best Quotes about Goals

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

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

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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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)

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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Demille, Nelson

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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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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Proverb, English

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

Reed, Scott

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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