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

Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Demille, Nelson

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

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

Austin, Tracy

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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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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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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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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

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

Dewey, John

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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

Proverb, French

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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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

33.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Robbins, Anthony

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana