Motivational Quotes

Goals

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about 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

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

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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.

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

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Seneca

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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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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Collier, Robert

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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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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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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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

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