Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Brown, Les

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Laurence, Peter

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

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.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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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.

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

Seneca

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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 more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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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

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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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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Reed, Scott