Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Demille, Nelson

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, French

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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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

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Reed, Scott

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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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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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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

Friedsam, Michael

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Ziglar, Zig