Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Dewey, John

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Brown, Les

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Pilon, Rich

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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.

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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Patton, George S.

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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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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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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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Reed, Scott

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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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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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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.

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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les