Motivational Quotes

Goals

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Patton, George S.

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

Carroll, Lewis

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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)

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

Seneca

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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!

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

Menander of Athens

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.