Motivational Quotes

Goals

Goals determine what you're going to be.

- Erving, Julius

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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

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

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Browning, Robert

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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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

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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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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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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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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''

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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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

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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