Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Goals

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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

The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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

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

Menander of Athens

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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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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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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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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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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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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

Dewey, John

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

Kissinger, Henry

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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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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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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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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.

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Austin, Tracy

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Pilon, Rich

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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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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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.

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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas