Motivational Quotes

Goals

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

- Dierdorf, Dan

Best Quotes about Goals

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pasteur, Louis

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

Menander of Athens

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

10.

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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

12.

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

13.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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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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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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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kafka, Franz

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Proverb, French

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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.

34.

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

Stone, W. Clement

35.

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

Dewey, John

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

Christina, Queen

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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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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, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis