Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Publilius Syrus

Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

10.

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.

11.

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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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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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

18.

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

Lee, Bruce

19.

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

20.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

30.

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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

Caddy, Eileen

33.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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!

39.

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

Berra, Yogi

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

41.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

42.

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

Proverb, French

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

46.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

49.

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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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.