Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Insull, Samuel

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

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kafka, Franz

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Laurence, Peter

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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

Reed, Scott

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

Austin, Tracy

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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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