Motivational Quotes

Goals

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Jackson, Bo

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

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

Brown, Les

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.

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Dewey, John

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

Pilon, Rich

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

18.

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

Seneca

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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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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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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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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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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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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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

Austin, Tracy

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

31.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Brown, Les

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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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

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Menander of Athens

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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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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kempis, Thomas

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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