Motivational Quotes

Goals

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Goals

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Ruskin, John

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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

12.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, English

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Brown, Les

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

Proverb, French

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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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

Browning, Robert

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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kissinger, Henry

42.

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

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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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.