Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Ruskin, John

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

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.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Seneca

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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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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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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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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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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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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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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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 person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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