Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Prior, Matthew

Best Quotes about Goals

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Demille, Nelson

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

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

Maxwell Maltz

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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 a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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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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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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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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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

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

Seneca

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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 most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

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

Noble, Charles C.