Motivational Quotes

Goals

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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

Lee, Bruce

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Browning, Robert

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

Seneca

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Dewey, John

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Jackson, Bo

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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.