Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Glasgow, Arnold H.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Louis Pasteur

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

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

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

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

Maxwell Maltz

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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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 have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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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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.

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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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Proverb, English

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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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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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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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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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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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon