Inspirational Goal Quotes

• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Change, Goal

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2015

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

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com

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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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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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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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• The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Dream, Teacher

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Motivation, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.

  Chester Carlson

  Motivational, Success, Moving

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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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• You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

  Ted Turner

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Goal

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Dream, Eye, Vision

  The Seven Pillars of Wisdom suppressed introductory chapter (1926).

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.71, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

  Seneca the Younger

  Goal, Management, Planning

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act,  but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

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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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• Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Robert H. Schuller (1986). “Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking”, Jove

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