Motivational Quotes

Goals

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

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

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

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Laurence, Peter

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Proverb, English

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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Prior, Matthew

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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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 whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand