Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Reed, Scott

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

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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 major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collier, Robert

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

Browning, Robert

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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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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Mcdonald, John

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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 distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aristotle

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

Lee, Bruce

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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

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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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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

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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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