130 Inspirational Goals Quotes about Power of Goal Setting

Everybody wants want to be successful and achieve their dreams in life. This journey towards success begins with a most important step goal-setting. When you being with a conscious effort of setting goals, the probability to achieve your dreams increases manifolds. Reading motivational goals quotes can help you to shape your thoughts and give better understanding of goals. These inspiring quotes on goal-setting are wisdom words by the successful people who have mastered the art of goal setting. Here are motivational goals quotes about the power of setting goals.

Goals quotes

1. “Goals must stretch and test your cognitive skills for results achievement.” ~ Invajy

1. “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” ~ Michael Korda

3. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” ~ Tony Robbins

4. “Your goal should be just out of reach, but not out of sight.” ~ Denis Waitley

5. “If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” ~ Lawrence J. Peter
6. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” ~ Earl Nightingale
7. “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.” ~ Ted Turner
8. “The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive; but in the person you become, as a result of reaching your goals.” ~ Robin Sharma
9. “If we have a goal and a plan, and are willing to take risks and mistakes and work as a team, we can choose to do the hard thing.” ~ Scott Kelly
10. “Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.” ~ Robert H. Schuller

Quotes about Goals

11. “Get serious about setting goals to understand the power of goal setting” ~ Invajy
12. “We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
13. “In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.” ~ Sid Caeser
14. “I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.” ~ Katie Ledecky
15. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” ~ Les Brown

16. “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
17. “Most “impossible” goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite-size chunks, writing them down, believing them, and then going full speed ahead as if they were routine.” ~ Don Lancaster
18. “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
19. “Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best, you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.” ~ Brian Lindsay
20. “Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.” ~ Robert H. Schuller

Goal-setting Quotes

21. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” ~ Zig Ziglar
22. “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
23. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C. S. Lewis
24. “People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them.” ~ Tony Robbins
25. “The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.” ~ Og Mandino
26. “Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.” ~ Kenichi Ohma
27. “A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.” ~ Thomas Fuller
28. “This one step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything.” ~ Scott Reed
29. “A birthday is a time to reflect on the year gone by, but to also set your goals for the upcoming year.” ~ Catherine Pulsifer
30. “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

Quotes about setting goals

31. “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” ~ Tony Robbins
32. “Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.” ~ David Joseph Schwartz
33. “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
34. “Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.” ~ Stephen Covey
35. “All of life’s happiness comes from achieving goals.” ~ Invajy

36. “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
37. The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.” ~ Dalai Lama
38. “Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy!” ~ Brian Tracy
39. “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
40. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” ~ Napoleon Hill

Motivational goals quotes

41. “Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.” ~ Les Brown
42. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” ~ Zig Ziglar
43. “Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.” ~ Bear Bryant
44. “The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.”~ David Allen
45. “Setting goals and achieving them helps individuals improve their self-confidence and self-esteem” ~ Invajy

46. “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
47. “Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don’t think we can achieve something beyond what we’re qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?” ~ Simon Sinek
48. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” ~ Steve Jobs
49. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” ~ Henry Ford
50. “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” ~ Brian Tracy

Famous goals quotes for success

51. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” ~ Bill Copeland
52. “Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.” ~ Aldous Huxl
53. “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.” ~ Michelle Obama
54. “Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the kind of person who can.” ~ Anonymous
55. “Living a life without goals is you are on a ship in a deep sea and don’t have compass. Your ship will move on but you do not know where you are going.” ~ Invajy

56. “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
57. “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” ~ Confucius
58. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” ~ Albert Einstein
59. “The only goals you don’t achieve in life are the goals you don’t set.” ~ Matt Fox
60. “In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.” ~ Robert Heinlein

Goals quotes to help you pursue your dreams

61. The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the train.” ~ John Milton Lawrence
62. “Many of us carry baggage from the past that hinders our ability to fight for the things we want in life, our goals, our dreams.” ~ Les Brown
63. “Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.” ~ LL Cool J
64. “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” ~ Jim Rohn
65. “Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal becomes a mini goal in itself.” ~ Denis Waitley
66. “My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.” ~ Kiana Tom
67. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
68. “Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.” ~ Ralph Marston
69. “A good goal is like a strenuous exercise — it makes you stretch.” ~ Mary Kay Ash
70. “If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.” ~ Brian Tracy

Achieving Goals Quotes

71.  “Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.” ~ John Dewey
72. “Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal.” ~ Brian Adams
73. “On the way to your goal, you can always stop, rest, go the opposite way for a while; but after a reasonable time you must set off again towards your goal!”~ Mehmet Murat ildan
74. “If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it.” ~ Jill Koenig
75.  “One part at a time, one day at a time, we can accomplish any goal we set for ourselves.” ~ Karen Casey
76.  “Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.” ~ Amelia Earhart
77.  “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” ~ Aristotle
78.  “Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.” ~ Viktor Frankl
79. “I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” ~ Michael Phelps
80. “There’s nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.” ~ Paloma Faith

Goals Setting Quotes

81. “I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.”~ Rachel Carson
82. “You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.” ~  Les Brown
83. “Where are the people who don’t have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.” ~ Shiv Khera
84.  “Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.” ~ Venus Williams
85. “It’s an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.” ~ Cesar Millan
86. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” ~ James Cameron
87.  “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ~ Nelson Mandela
88. “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
89. “The going is the goal.” ~ Horace Kallen
90. “I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.” ~ Nadia Comaneci

Goals Quotes

91. “People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that’s what it takes to accomplish your goals.” ~ Curtis Jackson
92. “Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
93. “You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.” ~ Jerry West
94. “It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals.” ~ Pat Summitt
95. “The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”~ Michelangelo
96. “You can always find a solution if you try hard enough.” ~ Lori Greiner
97. “You know that one thing you’ve always dreamed about? Write it down. Then take the first step. Today.” ~ Petra Poje
98. “There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.” ~ Mario Cuomo
99. “The great glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live with purpose.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
100. A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” ~ Bruce Lee

Quotes about Goal Setting

101. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” ~ Jim Rohn
102. “You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S. Lewis
103. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.” ~ Elon Musk
104. “A goal without a timeline is just a dream.” ~ Robert Herjavec
105.  “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~ Winston Churchill
106. “Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand. Every minute needs to count.” ~ Gary Vaynerchuk
107. “Goals can change from time to time but then remember to focus on your priorities.” ~ Roger Collmar
108. “It’s better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb than at the top of the one you don’t.” ~  Stephen Kellogg
109. “Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will NEVER be a perfect time to pursue your dreams and goals. ” ~ Invajy
110. “No desired achievement is gained without any goal setting.” ~ Wayne Chirisa

Goal Quote

111. “I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.” ~ Martha Stewart
112. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” ~ Steve Jobs
113.  “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” ~ Walt Disney
114. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” ~ Warren Buffet
115. “Goals are dreams brought to life.” ~ Amy Leigh Mercree
116. “One person may not, whereas another person will. Your job is to find a person who will help you reach your goal.” ~ Germany Kent
117. “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
118. “Begin with the end in mind.” ~ Stephen Covey
119.  “Empowerment involves analyzing your own life and believing that you are able to reach realistic goals.” ~ Poppy Fingley
120. “The best way to approach a goal is to first break it down into very small bite size steps. Each one of these steps should lead logically to the next step to be completed in a linear order.” ~ Byron Pulsifer

Quotes with goals

121. “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
122. “You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.” ~ RJ Mitte
123. “Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.” ~ Russel Honore
124. “No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.” ~ Jessica Savitch
125. “Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition, he or she has overcome to reach his goals.” ~ Dorothy Height
126. “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” ~ Jim Rohn
127. “Goals transform a random walk into a chase.” ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
128. “You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.” ~ George S. Patton
129. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” ~ Earl Nightingale
130. “Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.” ~ Ralph Marston

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