Motivational Quotes

Goals

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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Best Quotes about Goals

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

Kissinger, Henry

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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

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)

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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

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.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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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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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

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

Maxwell Maltz

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Patton, George S.

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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Publilius Syrus

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Browning, Robert

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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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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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