Motivational Quotes

Goals

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browning, Robert

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

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

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Dewey, John

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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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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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.

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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

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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

Reed, Scott

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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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

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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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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Prior, Matthew

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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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.