Motivational Quotes

Goals

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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.

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Reed, Scott

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Browning, Robert

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

Pilon, Rich

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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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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

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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

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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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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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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.

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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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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Patton, George S.