Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Louis Pasteur

Best Quotes about Goals

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

You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Jackson, Bo

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Menander of Athens

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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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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

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Lee, Bruce

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

37.

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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