Motivational Quotes

Goals

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

- Otto, Herbert A.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Collier, Robert

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Dewey, John

12.

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

Patton, George S.

13.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

14.

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

Schwartz, David J.

15.

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

Ziglar, Zig

16.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

17.

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

Robbins, Anthony

18.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Kafka, Franz

20.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

21.

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

Insull, Samuel

22.

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

23.

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

24.

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

Brown, Les

25.

You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

28.

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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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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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Prior, Matthew

33.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

35.

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

36.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

37.

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

38.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

45.

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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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

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian