Motivational Quotes

Goals

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Lake, Ricki

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

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

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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

Dewey, John

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

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

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

10.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

11.

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

12.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Seneca

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

16.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

Jackson, Bo

21.

You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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

24.

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

25.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

26.

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''

27.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

28.

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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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

30.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

31.

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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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

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

Reed, Scott

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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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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

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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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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Ziglar, Zig

39.

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

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

Friedsam, Michael

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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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

48.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Caddy, Eileen