Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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

Seneca

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Johnson, Percy H.

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

Seneca

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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Publilius Syrus

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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

Reed, Scott

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Kafka, Franz

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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

Menander of Athens

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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Maxwell Maltz