Goal Quotes

People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

No easy hope or lies shall bring us to our goal, but iron sacrifice of body, will, and soul.

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.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

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.

I hope that it’s given the millions of people that I’ve touched the optimism and desire to achieve their goals through hard work, perseverance, and positive attitude.

But what’s your ultimate goal, you’ll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

And unless your goal is against the laws of God or society, you can achieve it.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.