Motivational Quotes

Goals

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Kissinger, Henry

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Patton, George S.

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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 must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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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 know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Seneca

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Proverb, French

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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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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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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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dewey, John

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Nightingale, Earl