Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Laurence, Peter

Best Quotes about Goals

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

Seneca

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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

Seneca

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

10.

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

11.

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

12.

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

Demille, Nelson

13.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

14.

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

15.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, French

22.

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

Insull, Samuel

23.

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

Kempis, Thomas

24.

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

25.

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

26.

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

27.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

28.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

29.

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

30.

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

31.

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

32.

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

Carroll, Lewis

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

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

Brown, Les

36.

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

37.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

38.

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

39.

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

Johnson, Percy H.

40.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

41.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

42.

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

43.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

44.

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

Stone, W. Clement

45.

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

Noble, Charles C.

46.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

47.

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

48.

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

Reed, Scott

49.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

50.

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