Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Jackson, Bo

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

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

11.

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Insull, Samuel

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

Collier, Robert

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

Carlson, Curtis

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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

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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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!

36.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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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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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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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

47.

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.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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

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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