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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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.

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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.

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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

Seneca

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

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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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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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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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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