187 Insightful Goals Quotes To Help You Succeed In Life

These quotes will provide you with the inspiration and motivation you require to achieve your goals.

Goal setting is important, but you must know that goals are useless unless you have a plan of attack to achieve them. Check out these Goals quotes to help you realize your full potential and inspire the change you need to pursue new endeavors and challenge yourself.

Inspirational Goals Quotes

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If you don’t have big dreams and goals, you’ll end up working for someone that does.

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.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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.

Goals Quotes -Stephen Kellogg

I have short goals—to get better every day, to help my teammates every day—but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact… those people have goals.

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.

Goals Quotes - Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

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 before.

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.

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.

Funny Goals Quotes

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

Goals Quotes - Steve Jobs

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

You have to be able to get up and dust yourself off and always be going forward.

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.” – J. Howes

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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Short Goals Quotes

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A goal without a timeline is just a dream.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.

Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.

Goals are dreams brought to life.

If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal.

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Begin with the end in mind.

Be visionary about your goals.

The going is the goal.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Goals Quotes - Walt Disney

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Without any goal, it’s as if you are only doing things in random.

Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

If you can dream it up, you can team it up.

Goals Quotes - Richie Norton

Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise — it makes you stretch.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

You can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

Setting Goals Quotes

Goals Quotes - Roy T. Bennett

Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.

To reach a port, we must sail — Sail, not tie at anchor — Sail, not drift.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

The only goals you don’t achieve in life are the goals you don’t set.

Goals Quotes - Matt Fox

If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

A smart person will think first about the outcome of his decision before doing the first step.

There’s nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

It’s important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

Goals Quotes - Brian Tracy

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Remember why you started.

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.

Remember your goals are “better” and “less,” so progress is everything.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Goals Quotes - Robert H. Schuller

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

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.

No desired achievement is gained without any goal setting.

Writing and achieving your goals is not failure, not having a goal to write in the first place is the start of failure.

Goals Quotes - K. Collins

Set goals and focus on completing one goal at a time.

There are no right of wrong answers in goal setting. What works for you?

You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.

Where are the people who don’t have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Goals Quotes - Napoleon Hill

Goal-setting is a life skill.

However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of a great purpose.

François de la Rochefoucauld

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You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

Couple Goals Quotes

Goals Quotes - Jim Rohn

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passions only makes sense.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

Take the challenge of your life. Reach out to your goals. There is no limit to what you can achieve.

Goals Quotes - Lailah Gifty Akita

Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.

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Sometimes, I shake if I have to do something that I’ve never done before; maybe not noticeably, but inside. But I’ll do it, because I know it’s not an insurmountable task; I’ve done plenty of tasks in my life.

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

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New Goals Quotes

Goals Quotes - Stephen Richards

If you think you can then you can.

Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.

You have to believe it before you see it.

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the kind of person who can.

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.

Goals Quotes - Jim Rohn

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

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.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Life Goals Quotes

Goals Quotes - Zig Ziglar

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

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.

If you want to achieve your goal, the strategy you are using need not be clever or original but it should bring results.

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.

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!

Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

Goals Quotes - Serena Williams

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.

She wasn’t where she had been. She wasn’t where she was going, but she was on her way.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Without a goal, you will continue creating yourself in the manner you have been doing it so far. And obtaining the same expected results, more often, unconsciously.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Goals Quotes - Albert Einstein

If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

I know how it looks. But just start. Nothing is insurmountable.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Goals Quotes - Ralph Marston

In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

Any unforeseen challenges that crop up are only there to test your resolve on your way to ultimate success in reaching your goal.

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.

Relationship Goals Quotes

Goals Quotes - Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Motivation is interwoven with the goals you make and the habits you form in order to achieve them.

Matthew Lewis Browne

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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.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.

Goals Quotes - Michelle Obama

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

It’s an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.

I am constantly re-evaluating my goals and trying to strike items from my to-do list that aren’t critical.

Achieving Goals Quotes

Goals Quotes - Russel Honore

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

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.

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.

Goals Quotes - John Milton Lawrence

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

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Empowerment involves analyzing your own life and believing that you are able to reach realistic goals.

Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patient and compassionate towards the goal.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent return on energy!

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

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One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

Goals Quotes - Michael Korda

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.

We must share our dreams with people who will see us working toward and accomplishing our goals. Be encouraged by people who say, ‘How about trying it this way?

A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.

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.

Reaching Goals Quotes

Goals Quotes - Catherine Pulsifer

You can accomplish whatever your mind can see!

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

By having big goals and pushing yourself towards them you will have a lot more energy because you know exactly what your doing and what you’re doing it for.

As a professional athlete, a lot is going to be said about you—but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition, he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Goals Quotes - Nelson Mandela

It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Basically being in a team is an amalgamation of different things that have a common intention of meeting the assigned goal.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

Goals Quotes - Jack Ma

Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Remember that goals are not aspirations—they are not wishes that you want to have. They are things that you have to do

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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The great danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

David Joseph Schwartz

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Goals Quotes - David Joseph Schwartz

Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it.

The key to thriving with accomplishing any goal would be dependent on working with dedication, yet lots of people do not interpret just how important it really is!

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.

Focus On Your Goals Quotes

Goals Quotes - Walt Disney

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Once you know specifically what you’re aiming for, you’ll find that you can muster up enthusiasm for your goal more easily.

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 always win out.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

This one step—choosing a goal and sticking to it—changes everything.

Goals Quotes - Junaid Raza

Committed people find nothing more charming than their goals.

The great glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live with purpose.

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

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

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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.

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals

Goals Quotes - Ll Cool J

Goals can change from time to time but then remember to focus on your priorities.

A goal is not just an object on a pitch; it is also a milestone on your journey of excellence.

If we have a goal and a plan, and are willing to take risks and mistakes and work as team, we can choose to do the hard thing.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

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.

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.

Best Goals Quotes

Goals Quotes - Bill Gates

To win big you sometimes have to risk big things.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

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

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand. Every minute needs to count.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Goals produce focus. Without a goal, there is no reason to focus on anything. Think of a goal as a target.

Conclusion

Setting goals can be challenging because they often involve change and discomfort—but they also give us something to focus on and work towards over time.

The best goals are those that are challenging but achievable; this way, if we fail at one goal, we'll feel motivated to try again with another one soon afterwards!

Hopefully these quotes have inspired you to take action and set goals for yourself. You don't have to tell your friends and family about them, but I encourage you to write down your goals somewhere.

That way you can look back on them when you're feeling discouraged or anxious about life's many setbacks.

Don't give up! Just keep going and try again tomorrow because even if things aren't working out today that doesn't mean they won't ever work out for you!

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