Quotes on Goals

Enoy our collection of quotes on goals and about setting goals. Let these words of wisdom in them inspire and motivate you to turn all your dreams into goals!

"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

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy." Denis Waitley

"Goals give you a compass in order to direct your path through life. Goals focus your thoughts and actions on areas that have precise purpose and meaning." Catherine Pulsifer, Wings for Goals

"Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan." Paul Meyer

"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

"Goals are not only absolutely necesary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive." Robert H. Schuller

"For me, goals are my road map to the life I want. They have helped me accomplish things I once thought were impossible." Catherine Pulsifer, Wings of Wisdom

"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

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

"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

"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

"Goals point to where you want to end up, not where you are today." Catherine Pulsifer

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach." Benjamin Mays

"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

"Any unforeseen challenges that crop up are only there to test your resolve on your way to ultimate success in reaching your goal." Byron Pulsifer, Beavers: What They Can Teach Us

"Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passions only makes sense" Josh Hinds, Are Your Dreams Aligned With Your Passions?

"Goals determine what you're going to be." Julius Erving

"One part at a time, one day at a time, we can accomplish any goal we set for ourselves." Karen Casey, Achievement of a Life Goal

"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps." Helmut Schmidt

"To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal." Earl Nightingale

"Goals are like a map. They help us determine where we want to end up, and give us personal direction on which to focus our energy." Catherine Pulsifer, Focus

"We tend to be held back from our goals by the simplicity of our comfort zones...but just how comfortable are we? Wouldn't we be more content living in our dreams?" Michelle C. Ustaszeski

"If you want to do something and you have a goal, do it, don't wait, because your channel might change sometime soon - and quite unexpectedly." Sean Swarner, Keep Climbing

"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you determine what you want, you have made the most important decision in your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it." Douglas Lurtan

"Goals are dreams with deadlines." Diana Scharf Hunt

"It takes a person with a mission to succeed." Clarence Thomas

"You are a product of your own brainstorm." Rosemary K. Steinbaum

"Accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination." Dwight D. Eisenhower

"In achieving your goals, you may run into roadblocks. Don't let that stop you, go around, over, or under. If you are committed to your goal you will find a way." Catherine Pulsifer

"You can accomplish whatever your mind can see!" Catherine Pulsifer

"Be sure to take the most direct route to your dreams. Never take your eyes off your goal, or you will loose course. Never look back in sorrow, or you will trip." submitted by Joe Brown

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal." Earl Nightingale

"Goals help focus you on areas in both your personal and professional life that are important and meaningful, rather than being guided by what other people want you to be, do, or accomplish." Catherine Pulsifer

"You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals." General George S. Patton

"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

"The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving." Oliver Wendell Holmes

"By losing your goal, You have lost your way." Friedrich Nietzsche

"You have to know what you want to get." Gertrude Stein

"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 can set a direct course for your future by defining your goals, or, you can take the opposite position and just let the future haphazardly unfold by itself." Catherine Pulsifer

"You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there." Yogi Berra

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going." Earl Nightingale

"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

"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

"The unfortunate aspect about living life without your own goals is that you may very well reach a point in your life where you will wonder, 'what would have happened if I had only done..." Catherine Pulsifer

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are." Arnold H. Glasgow

"Goals should stretch your abilities, but not to the point of being unrealistic." Catherine Pulsifer

"In everything we do, our own thoughts can help us succeed, or they can help us fail. Maintain a positive attitude." Catherine Pulsifer

"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

"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, Your Road Map For Success

"We do not develop anything with one giant step. No matter who you are, or what you do, each one of us had had to take a lot of individual steps to accomplish a task, a job, a career, or even a hobby." Catherine Pulsifer, The Little Steps