Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Dewey, John

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Proverb, French

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

10.

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

11.

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

Prior, Matthew

14.

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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

17.

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

Lee, Bruce

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dewey, John

21.

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 feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Robbins, Anthony

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Reed, Scott

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

Stone, W. Clement

32.

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 person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Patton, George S.

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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

40.

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

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

Christina, Queen

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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 major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig