Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Goals

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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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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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

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

Christina, Queen

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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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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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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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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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.

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, French

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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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

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Dewey, John

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

Collier, Robert

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Mcdonald, John