Motivational Quotes

Goals

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Mcdonald, John

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Louis Pasteur

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

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

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

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

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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

Patton, George S.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

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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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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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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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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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

Menander of Athens

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

Brown, Les

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 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

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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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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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