Reaching Goals Quotes

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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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• 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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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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• 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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• If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Ambition, Will And Determination

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 22, 2014

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• It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Stars, Goals And Life, Reaching Your Goals

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• It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Dream, Reaching For The Stars, Calamity

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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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• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

  Fitzhugh Dodson

  Inspirational, Success, Greatness

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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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• To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Clear Goals

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• The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Dream, Stars, Lying

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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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• A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Witty, Goal

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.286, Hamilton Books

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• Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Fear, Educational

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.382

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• It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

  Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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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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• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Andrea del Sarto" l. 97 (1855)

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• The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Denis Waitley (1985). “The Double Win”

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