Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Walsh, Basil S.

Best Quotes about Goals

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

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

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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!

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Brown, Les

18.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

19.

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

Seneca

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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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

32.

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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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

34.

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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

Pasteur, Louis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Prior, Matthew

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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