Quotes on Goals

"If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings." Susan Polis Schultz

"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, from 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, from Keep Climbing

"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." Catherine Pulsifer, from Beavers: What They Can Teach Us

"Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction." Author Unknown

"Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passions only makes sense" Josh Hinds, from 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, from 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

"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

"Great minds have purposes, others have dreams." Washington Irving

"You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals." Booker T. Washington

"Goals are dreams with deadlines." Diana Scharf Hunt

"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it." Gale Sayers

"The most important thing about goals is having one." Geoffry F. Abert

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

"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

"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 have a gold mine when you have a goal mind.” Author Unknown

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

“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

“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

“Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.” Author Unknown

“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