Motivational Quotes

Goals

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Goals

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

Pilon, Rich

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

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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 big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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 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 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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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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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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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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Collier, Robert

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Seneca

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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.