Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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

Browning, Robert

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.

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

Menander of Athens

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Brown, Les

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

10.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, French

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

Schwartz, David J.

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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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

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Rockefeller, John D.

34.

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

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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.