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

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

Kafka, Franz

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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

Publilius Syrus

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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Browning, Robert

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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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

Dewey, John

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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

Reed, Scott

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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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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Collier, Robert

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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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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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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