Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Pilon, Rich

Best Quotes about Goals

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Demille, Nelson

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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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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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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 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 goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

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

Dewey, John

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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Seneca

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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

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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

Publilius Syrus

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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.