Motivational Quotes

Goals

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lake, Ricki

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

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

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

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

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

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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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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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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, English

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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

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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

Jackson, Bo

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Carroll, Lewis

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les