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

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!

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Austin, Tracy

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Brown, Les

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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''

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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

Seneca

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Johnson, Percy H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Caddy, Eileen

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.