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

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

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Ruskin, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Seneca

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

10.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

11.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

12.

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

13.

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

14.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

15.

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

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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

17.

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

Collier, Robert

18.

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

19.

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

Prior, Matthew

20.

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

Berra, Yogi

21.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

22.

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.

23.

We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

Carroll, Lewis

27.

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

28.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

29.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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

35.

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

Brown, Les

36.

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

37.

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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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

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

Laurence, Peter

40.

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

Proverb, English

41.

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

42.

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

Demille, Nelson

43.

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

Brown, Les

44.

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

Seneca

45.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

47.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

49.

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

Patton, George S.