Motivational Quotes

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

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

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

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

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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

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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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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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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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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Collier, Robert

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Proverb, English

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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

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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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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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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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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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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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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.