Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

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

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Demille, Nelson

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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

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

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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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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 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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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Brown, Les

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Browning, Robert

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

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Percy H.

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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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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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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.