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

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Ruskin, John

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

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.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Brown, Les

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Dewey, John

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, French

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

Browning, Robert

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

Maxwell Maltz

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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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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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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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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.