Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Dewey, John

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Proverb, French

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

10.

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

11.

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

Kissinger, Henry

12.

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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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 yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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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

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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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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

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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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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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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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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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.

27.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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

29.

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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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

38.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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

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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.