Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Noble, Charles C.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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''

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Brown, Les

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

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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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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

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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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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

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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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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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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

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Austin, Tracy

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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 most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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

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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

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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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