Inspirational Goal Setting Quotes - Page 3

• 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.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Goal, Important

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• Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

  Denis Waitley

  Strength, Work Out, Goal

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from May 12, 2017

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• Goals determine what you are going to be

  Julius Erving

  Goal, Insightful, Nba Player

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• The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Motivation, Inspiration

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.86, Bantam

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• An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Ambition, Clear Goals, Average

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• The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

  Rick Hansen

  Motivational, Goal, Challenges

  Rick Hansen, Joan Laub (1994). “Going the distance: 7 steps to personal change”

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• You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.

  Steve Garvey

  Goal, Talent, Stuck

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Goals determine what you're going to be.

  Julius Erving

  Inspirational, Basketball, Determination

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• Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Running

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• Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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 goals to reach.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Lying, Goals Dreams, Mind

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• All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Business, Successful, Goal

  Norman Vincent Peale (1989). “Six Attitudes for Winners”, Tyndale House Pub

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• The world is full of educated derelicts.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Perseverance, Determination, Persistence

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Struggle, Eye, Focus

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• Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

  Saul Bellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uprising

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

  Samuel Insull

  Lonely, Goal, Rooms

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• If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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