Motivational Quotes

Goals

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, French

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Brown, Les

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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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Pasteur, Louis

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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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

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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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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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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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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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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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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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 whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Browning, Robert

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Seneca

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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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