Motivational Quotes

Goals

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Kempis, Thomas

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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.

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

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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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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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Dewey, John

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Caddy, Eileen

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Collier, Robert

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Austin, Tracy

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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.