Top 79 Goal Motivation Quotes
#1. There are no new plots, but there are plenty of fresh new characters with whom you can grab the reader. Characterization is the key to successful commercial fiction. Characterization starts with goal, motivation, and conflict. Character
Debra Dixon
#2. Someone said that our goals keep us going, but it's our dreams that make us tick. So if you disconnect your goals from your dreams, don't be surprised if one morning you realize that your life is on autopilot.
Ray N. Kuili
#3. Goals not only help you develop initial motivation by making your dreams obtainable, but they also help you continue to be motivated and that creates momentum.
John C. Maxwell
#5. Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.
Peter J. Daniels
#6. Each of us has an innate, human desire to be challenged. We are driven by it, and we often learn from our experiences to set a target and hit it. Even if we don't reach our intended goal or destination, we gain strength in trying.
Michelle McCullough
#7. It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.
Richard Courant
#8. It has never been my goal to impress anyone but myself. That has proven challenging enough.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. Everyone has to start somewhere. So get out there and start.
Auliq Ice
#11. Finding a positive motivation also engages your emotional brain to work for the change, not against it. Remember, it wants to go toward pleasure. So the more emotionally pleasurable your positive motivation, the more it will help you achieve your goal.
M.J. Ryan
#12. Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them.
Peter Drucker
#14. My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
Rafael Nadal
#15. My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be.
Debi Thomas
#16. The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.
Brian Tracy
#17. If you are setting a goal without understanding the reason for it, then maybe you should reevaluate the goal in general.
Tina Brown
#18. For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
Arsene Wenger
#19. Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results.
Mark Victor Hansen
#20. Your passion is your internal compass that will guide you from where you are towards where you want to go.
Julie Connor
#21. Without visions and written goals, what direction are we going to head?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#22. Your 'Ideal Parallel World' must be so grand that if you told it to 99% of your friends, they would laugh - some because they would think you were joking and some because they would think the goal impossible.
Kevin Michel
#23. A single-minded purpose gives sacred strength to achieve the dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. Man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum, like a journey ...
Ayn Rand
#25. Never mistake movement for action ... a rocking horse moves; a race horse charges towards a goal.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#26. The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.
Francie Larrieu Smith
#27. The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.
Jack Nicklaus
#28. Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don't focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.
B. J. Fogg
#30. In nearly all cases where greatness is achieved, it's the goal that drives motivation and discipline - not the other way around.
Mark Murphy
#31. There's mornings when my body aches or my mind is just not with it. But that's part of being an athlete and accomplishing a goal that seems unattainable. You have to find your motivation, what inspires you.
Jonathan Horton
#32. Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti
#33. There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable.
Roopleen
#34. It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.
Earl Nightingale
#35. Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.
Gerald R. Ford
#37. I love the challenge of the game. I love the work. My goal right now is to have a season next year that will make people forget about this one. I'll use things like this for motivation. I'm pumped. I'm hungry.
Alex Rodriguez
#38. Passion fuels dreams. Commitment fuels action. Get clear about what you want to do and why you want to do it. Take action.
Your time is now.
Julie Connor
#39. The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.
Brian Tracy
#40. To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.
Herbert Otto Gille
#41. Motivation is worthless. Motivation is what you have when everything is going right. Determination is Everything. When things go wrong and you start to waver, Determination is what keeps you moving toward your goal.
N.a.
#42. Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.
Victoria Addino
#43. If achieving a desired goal was easy why would anyone bother. There'd be no fun.
Veronica Purcell
#44. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Michael Johnson
#45. The life of Gautama Buddha illustrates the power of service, compassion and, most importantly, renunciation. He was convinced that material wealth is not the sole goal.
Narendra Modi
#46. Motivation is the key to success in whatever you're doing in life. It comes a lot easier when you're doing something you love and have passion for. My goal is to have a good time and a hot run. And I'm not afraid of disappointment
it only makes me work harder.
Missy Giove
#47. Goals may cause systematic problems for organizations due to narrowed focus, unethical behavior, increased risk taking, decreased cooperation, and decreased intrinsic motivation. Use care when applying goals in your organization.
Daniel H. Pink
#49. Allow your past achievements to provide fuel for your current goals.
Josh Hinds
#50. When I worked on my game, that's what I thought about. When it happened, I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.
Michael Jordan
#53. Know your goal, make a plan and pull the trigger
Phil McGraw
#54. Set your end goal ... the steps in between - is your path
Gino Norris
#56. My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#57. I want you to believe in yourself, and take chances, even if it is scary and even if you don't know what you are doing yet.
Auliq Ice
#58. You can't motivate a group of people or a Team. You have to motivate people individually, and that motivation has to be in an environment in which that person has a goal - something they want to accomplish in their lives.
Lou Holtz
#59. If you have not learnt anything, but have learnt one thing that the Goal of life is to be Happy, you have learnt everything!-RVM
R.v.m.
#60. The biggest hack a motivation hacker can perform is to build her confidence to the size of a volcano. An oversized eruption of Expectancy can incinerate all obstacles in the path to any goal when you combine it with good planning. Value
Nick Winter
#61. First visualize your goal in your mind. Then have a leap of faith, and let your passion guide you throughout the process.
Abhijit Naskar
#64. Goal Of LIFE Is patience,
Goal Of Patience Is LIFE!
Sujit Lalwani
#65. Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.
Brian Tracy
#66. I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.
Gail Devers
#67. My life goal right now is to die a good man, with a good heart, soul, and mind, with a good family, and a couple Grammys.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#68. My experience indicates that most people who've accumulated a great deal of wealth haven't had that as their goal at all. Wealth is only a by-product, not the original motivation.
Michael Milken
#69. The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.
Franz Kafka
#71. Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.
H.W. Brands
#72. 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
#73. After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
Dan O'Brien
#74. We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life.
In all of that time there is never a course in overcoming adversity, goal setting, sacrifice, perseverance, teammates, or family.
I guess that's what wrestling is for.
JohnA Passaro
#75. Don't measure how far still you've got to go, but how far you've already gone to get to the point where you are now.
Frederick Espiritu
#76. Today my goal is to be more productive than I was yesterday, and tomorrow more productive than today.
Noel DeJesus
#77. Repeating an affirmation several times a day keeps you focused on your goal, strengthens your motivation, and programs your subconscious by sending an order to your crew to do whatever it takes to make that goal happen.
Jack Canfield
#78. There is one factor that creates a difference to your success.That factor is called level of Motivation.
Vatsala Shukla
#79. He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.
Harry Turtledove
