Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Christina, Queen

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Reed, Scott

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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

Patton, George S.

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Berra, Yogi

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Robert Heinlein

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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.

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, English

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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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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