Motivational Quotes

Goals

Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

- Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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

Reed, Scott

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

Noble, Charles C.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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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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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pilon, Rich

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

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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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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 person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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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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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, 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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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald