Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Demille, Nelson

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

Dewey, John

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

Jackson, Bo

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

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Patton, George S.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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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

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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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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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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

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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

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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Reed, Scott

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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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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Louis Pasteur