Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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.

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

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

Collier, Robert

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Pilon, Rich

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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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

Proverb, French

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Dewey, John

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

Browning, Robert

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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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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Lake, Ricki

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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