Motivational Quotes

Goals

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Rockefeller, John D.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Schwartz, David J.

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.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

10.

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

Pasteur, Louis

11.

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Collier, Robert

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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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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Seneca

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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.