Motivational Quotes

Goals

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Proverb, French

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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.

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

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

10.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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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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 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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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Reed, Scott

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Dewey, John

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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

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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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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

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

Pilon, Rich

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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

50.

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