Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Kuhn, Maggie

Best Quotes about Goals

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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.

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

Seneca

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Pilon, Rich

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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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.

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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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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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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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

32.

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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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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.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, French

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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.