Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Dewey, John

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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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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 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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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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

Proverb, French

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Lake, Ricki

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Caddy, Eileen

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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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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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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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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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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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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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

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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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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