Life Goal Quotes - Page 2

• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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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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• 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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• Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.111

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• Goals determine what you're going to be.

  Julius Erving

  Inspirational, Basketball, Determination

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• A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 121), 2000.

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• Goals determine what you are going to be

  Julius Erving

  Goal, Insightful, Nba Player

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

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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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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• 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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• 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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• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

  Napoleon Hill

  Motivational, Attitude, Failure

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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  A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

  Larry Bird

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've
  already achieved them.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You have to know what you want to get it.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspirational, Goal, Want

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• The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Goal, World

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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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• Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Goals And Life

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• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Inspirational, Leadership, Don't Give Up

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• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.68, Lulu.com

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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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