Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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 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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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.

12.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Brown, Les

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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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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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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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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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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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark