Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Dewey, John

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

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

Proverb, English

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.

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

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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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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 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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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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!

39.

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

40.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Brown, Les

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Browning, Robert

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Reed, Scott

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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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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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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.