Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Noble, Charles C.

Best Quotes about Goals

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

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.

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

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

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

Publilius Syrus

11.

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

12.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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!

15.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Lake, Ricki

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Friedsam, Michael

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Seneca

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Caddy, Eileen

40.

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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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz