Goal Setting Quotes
Goal Setting Quotes to keep you fired up for life:
Jim Rohn
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Author Unknown
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant’s into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don’t just think it – ink it!
Michael Korda
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Louisa May Alcott
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Cavett Robert
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Nido Qubein
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
Brian Tracy
The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.
Robert Collier
See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
Louisa May Alcott
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Andrew Carnegie
Aim for the highest.
W. Clement Stone
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
Elbert Hubbard
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
Herodotus
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Ronald Reagan
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
Jim Rohn
Goals. There’s not telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
Scott Reed
This one step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything.
Maxwell Maltz
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
Unknown Author
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
Les Brown
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Joe Paterno
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
Orison Swett Marden
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.
Robert Collier
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Seneca
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Mark Victor Hansen
Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else’s results.
Denis Waitley
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.
Geoffry Abert
The most important thing about goals is having one.
W. Clement Stone
You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination.
Harvey Mackay
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Tracy Brinkmann
You must have an aim, a vision, a goal. For the man sailing through life with no destination or ‘port-of- call’, every wind is the wrong wind.
Kahlil Gibran
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
T.S. Eliot
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Milton Berle
I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Maxwell Maltz
Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
Charles F Kettering
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Zig Ziglar
Remember, what you get by reaching your destination isn’t nearly as important as what you become by reaching your goals — what you will become is the winner you were born to be!
Norman Vincent Peale
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.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Hannibal
We will either find a way, or make one.
Og Mandino
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.
Les Brown
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Aristotle
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
John Wooden
Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
Norman Vincent Peale
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greter things than we realize.
Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is were they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry Ford
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.
Author unknown
If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.
Doug Larson
Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.
Arnold H. Glasgow
Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Author unknown
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not trouble with great ambitions.
Denis Waitley
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 acheivable. 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.
Author unknown
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.
Francis Bacon
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Earl Nightingale
All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Mary Kay Ash
An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
J.C. Penney
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.
Tom Landry
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
John Dewey
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Zig Ziglar
Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.
Unknown author
Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
Mark Victor Hansen
To realize a dream, you must have a dream to realize.