Motivational Quotes

Goals

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

- Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Seneca

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Menander of Athens

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Stone, W. Clement

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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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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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony