Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Goals

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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

Ruskin, John

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''

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Browning, Robert

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

Reed, Scott

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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.

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Seneca

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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.

22.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

24.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

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

Laurence, Peter

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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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)

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

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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