Motivational Quotes

Goals

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.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Collier, Robert

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

Schuller, Robert H.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Proverb, French

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.

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

Seneca

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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

Browning, Robert

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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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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Maxwell Maltz

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim