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

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

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

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

Louis Pasteur

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Brown, Les

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

Friedsam, Michael

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Dewey, 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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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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Patton, George S.

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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 person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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

Demille, Nelson