Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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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

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

Noble, Charles C.

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Collier, Robert

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Pasteur, Louis

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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