Motivational Quotes

Goals

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Goals

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Pasteur, Louis

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

Dewey, John

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

10.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

11.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

12.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

13.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

14.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

22.

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

Reed, Scott

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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.

24.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

25.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

26.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

27.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

28.

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

29.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Maxwell Maltz

31.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

32.

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

Brown, Les

33.

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

Laurence, Peter

34.

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

Austin, Tracy

35.

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.

36.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Kempis, Thomas

40.

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

Brown, Les

41.

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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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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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

44.

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

45.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

46.

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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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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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig