Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

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

Louis Pasteur

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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

Brown, Les

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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

Patton, George S.

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Brown, Les

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

Austin, Tracy

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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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

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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

42.

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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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

Prior, Matthew

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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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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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee