Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Reed, Scott

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

Robbins, Anthony

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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

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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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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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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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Browning, Robert

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

Demille, Nelson

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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

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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You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

39.

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

Maxwell Maltz

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Prior, Matthew

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Goals determine what you're going to be.