Motivational Quotes

Goals

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Seneca

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

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

Browning, Robert

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Austin, Tracy

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Jackson, Bo

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Brown, Les

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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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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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Maxwell Maltz