Goals

(336 votes)   Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(279 votes)   A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(270 votes)   The most important thing about goals is having one.

Geoffrey F. Abert

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(244 votes)   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
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(229 votes)   The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(223 votes)   Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

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(203 votes)   A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet

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

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

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(175 votes)   Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Mary Kay Ash
American Businesswoman, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

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

Robert H. Schuller
1926-, American Minister (Crystal Cathedral), Author, Social Leader

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(152 votes)   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.

Claude M. Bristol
1891-1951, American Author of ''The Magic of Believing''

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(143 votes)   If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

John D. Rockefeller
1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon

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

Percy H. Johnson

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(141 votes)   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.

Charles ''Tremendous'' Jones
American Motivational Speaker, Author

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(139 votes)   No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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