Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Austin, Tracy

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

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Lake, Ricki

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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 most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Seneca

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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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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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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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.