Quotes about Goal Setting
A collection of inspirational quotes about goal setting. Focus on the things you want in your life by setting a goal in all areas of your life. Let these inspirational quotes and sayings on goal setting inspire you to live a life with intention and purpose doing what you perhaps only once dreamed about."There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."
Napoleon Hill
"You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims and destination."
W. Clement Stone
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
Hannah More
"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there."
Bo Jackson
"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."
Ronald Reagan
"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals."
General George S. Patton
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
Epictetus
"The most important thing about goals is having one."
Geoffry F. Abert
"Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything."
Scott Reed
"Goals determine what you're going to be."
Julius Erving
more quotes on setting goals
"You have a gold mine when you have a goal mind." Author Unknown
"Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor." Brian Tracy
"If's are determined by your attitude. If you turn your 'ifs into possibilities, you will find a positive way to if your way towards your goals. Catherine Pulsifer, from A Positive If
"There is no achievement without goals." Robert J. McKaine
"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life." Les Brown
"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
"Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal." Author Unknown
"A goal properly set is halfway reached." Abraham Lincoln
"One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams." Jim Rohn
"To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal." Earl Nightingale
"You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures." Charles C. Noble
"If you don't have the time to write down your goals and action plans, where will you find the time to achieve your goals?" C Pulsifer
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." Zig Ziglar
"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are." Arnold H. Glasgow
"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." Earl Nightingale
"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." Stephen Brennan
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment." Earl Nightingale
Goal setting is the core of existence that defines life." Joanne Bonomi
"By losing your goal, You have lost your way." Friedrich Nietzsche
"You have to know what you want to get." Gertrude Stein
"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal." Earl Nightingale
"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
"Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?" Bob Marley
"The simple two letter word, "if", can determine success or failure, it can mean the difference between setting your goals and achieving them." Catherine Pulsifer, from A Positive If
"It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality." Og Mandino
"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
"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them." George Bernard Shaw
"Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." Marsha Sinetar
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"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement." Brian Tracy
"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives." Viktor Frankl
"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach." Benjamin Mays
"The key to creating what you want is to turn your desire or your goal over to your subconscious which is connected to the Universal Mind or Universal Subconscious and let it bring the goal to you and you to your goal." Dr. Robert Anthony
"You are a product of your own brainstorm." Rosemary K. Steinbaum
"You can't reach your goals without occasionally taking some long shots." Author Unknown
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." Thomas Jefferson
"If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.
If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.
Whatever good things we build end up building us." Jim Rohn
"Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success." David Joseph Schwartz
"Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction." Author Unknown
"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps." Helmut Schmidt
"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind." Seneca
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." Henry David Thoreau
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." Langston Hughes
"I think goals define your ambitions. But once you reach them, don't stop." Yogi Berra
"It takes a person with a mission to succeed." Clarence Thomas
"Goals in writting are dreams with deadlines." Brian Tracy
"Accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination." Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there." Yogi Berra
"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives.Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." Jim Rohn
"Don't let worry ruin the attainment of your goals! Enjoy your successes no matter how big or small they are." Catherine Pulsifer, from Don't Let Worry Ruin Your Goals
"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going." Brian Tracy
"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars." Les Brown
"The bottom line is that goals need to be serious wants, and you've got to be willing to put in the work it takes to make them happen." Yogi Berra
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