Motivational Quotes

Goals

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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''

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

Insull, Samuel

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

Brown, Les

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

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.

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

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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Reed, Scott

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Seneca

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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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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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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

Kissinger, Henry

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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Patton, George S.

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.