Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Goals

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Pilon, Rich

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

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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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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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Menander of Athens

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

Proverb, English

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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Walsh, Basil S.

45.

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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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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.