Goals Quotes

To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the “what is next” of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.

Mark Twain

Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.

Brian Tracy

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

David Allen

Pinpoint your primary goal in life. You must determine exactly what you want, and when.

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.

James Clear

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

Emphasise long-term objectives over short-term pleasures.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

Is this choice going to help me reach my goal?

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Diana Ross

If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.

Zig Ziglar

Be the designer of your world and not merely the consumer of it.

James Clear

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

Andrew Carnegie

Set one goal.

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

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

Goal = from X at date to Y at date so that Z.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Jim Rohn

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

Bruce Lee

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

Walt Disney

If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.

Elon Musk

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

Theodore Roosevelt

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Zig Ziglar

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Les Brown

You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.

C S Lewis

The question I ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’

Mark Zuckerberg

The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact… those people have goals.

Seth Godin

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

Benjamin E Mays

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

Michael Phelps

One must have strategies to execute dreams.

Azim Premji

Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly.

Cecil B De Mille

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Andrew Carnegie

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

Systems are for people who care about winning repeatedly. Goals are for people who care about winning once.

James Clear

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, Let’s go, let’s go, and ceilings start to move up.

Zig Ziglar

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

Les Brown

The greater 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 hit it.

Michelangelo

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

Charles C Noble

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

Bo Bennett

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Napoleon Hill

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

Adolph Monod

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

Epictetus

In between goals is a thing called life that has to be lived and enjoyed.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.