Motivational Quotes

Goals

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

- Glasgow, Arnold H.

Best Quotes about Goals

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Publilius Syrus

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)

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

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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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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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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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!

29.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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

Jackson, Bo

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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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 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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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Kissinger, Henry