Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Robert Heinlein

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Insull, Samuel

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

Reed, Scott

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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

Publilius Syrus

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.