Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

Austin, Tracy

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

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

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

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Robbins, Anthony

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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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

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Patton, George S.

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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)

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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

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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pasteur, Louis

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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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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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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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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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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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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 properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Ziglar, Zig

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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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