110 Goals Quotes and Sayings

Goals help you fuel your ambition. When you have a goal, you are not just creating a plan for your life and holding yourself accountable in every decision you make, a goal also gives you the inspiration to achieve the things you first thought were impossible. If you need an extra boost in setting up your life goals, check out these goals quotes here.

Goals Quotes

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

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

3. One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. – Michael Korda

4. If you aim for nothing, you’ll hit it every time.

5. It’s important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them. – Yuichiro Miura

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

7. 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

8. A goal properly set is halfway reached. – Zig Ziglar

9. 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

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10. In all things that you do, consider the end. – Solon

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

12. Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. – Rabindranath Tagore

13. 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

14. I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done. – Rachel Carson

15. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. – Tony Robbins

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

17. 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

18. Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. – Brian Tracy

19. 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

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

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

22. Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you. – Tony Hsieh

23. Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals. – David A. Bednar

24. Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them. – Jack Canfield

25. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Zig Ziglar

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

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27. Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals. – David A. Bednar

28. Sticking to good habits can be hard work, and mistakes are part of the process. Don’t declare failure simply because you messed up or because you’re having trouble reaching your goals. Instead, use your mistakes as opportunities to grow stronger and become better. – Amy Morin

29. 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. – Michael Jordan

30. One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. – Michelle Obama

31. 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

32. I’m not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too. – Ruben Studdard

33. 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

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

35. 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

36. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands, your own. – Mark Victor Hansen

37. 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

38. 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

39. Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them. – Jim Rohn

40. The distance between your dreams and reality is call action.

41. 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

42. If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. – Jim Rohn

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43. 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

44. Everybody has their own Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb. – Seth Godin

45. 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

46. Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk. – J.C. Penney

47. Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you. – Andy Andrews

48. Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will never be a perfect time to pursue your dreams and goals.

49. 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. – Og Mandino

50. Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. – Viktor Frankl

51. If you raise your standards but don’t really believe you can meet them, you’ve already sabotaged yourself. You won’t even try, you’ll be lacking the sense of certainty that allows you to tap the deepest capacity that’s within you. Our beliefs are like unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what’s possible and impossible and what we can and cannot do. They shape every action, every thought and every feeling that we experience. As a result, changing our belief systems is central to making any real and lasting change in our lives. – Anthony Robbins

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

53. 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. – Ronald Reagan

54. A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill

55. Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. – Dennis Waitley

56. 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. – Samuel Butler

57. 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

58. Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. – Sylvia Plath

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59. Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. – Milan Kundera

60. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. – Ursula K. Le Guin

61. Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.

If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more. – Roy T. Bennett

62. 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

63. Aim higher in case you fall short. – Suzanne Collins

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

65. Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. – Louisa May Alcott

66. You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain. – Tom Hiddleston

67. If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing. – Coco Chanel

68. Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product of a life well lived. – Eleanor Roosevelt

69. Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed. – Paulo Coelho

70. A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. – Mandy Hale

71. If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. – Dr Roopleen

72. Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you. – Shannon Alder

73. It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about. – Shauna Niequist

74. A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. – Bruce Lee

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75. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. –  Napoleon Hill

76. It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming. – Laini Taylor

77. If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. – Yogi Berra

78. To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles. – T.F. Hodge

79. Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. – Flannery O’Connor

80. Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life. – Shannon L. Alder

81. Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks. – Dr Roopleen

82. Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have never gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you deserve better and go earn it. Today is a new day. – Steve Maraboli

83. When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you. – Shannon Alder

84. I’m the living embodiment of ‘it could be worse. – Dan Howell

85. You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up. – Richelle E. Goodrich,

86. Sometimes that mountain you’ve been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you’ve been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small. – Carrie Underwood

87. Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about. – Stephen Richards

88. When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe. – Vera Nazarian,

89. Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone. – Shannon L. Alder

90. If you’re trying to be miserable, it’s important you don’t have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don’t read anything informative, don’t listen to anything useful, don’t do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind. – John Bytheway

91. I’m going to enjoy every second, and I’m going to know I’m enjoying it while I’m enjoying it. Most people don’t live, they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn’t make any difference whether they’ve reached the goal or not. – Jean Webster

Goals Quotes

92. What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? – Robert Schuller

93. If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don’t have enough goals. – Lou Holtz

94. The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul. – David O. McKay

95. The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts. – Dr Roopleen

96. Dare to dream. If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass – to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that. – Anthon St. Maarten

97. Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. – Marcus Aurelius

98. The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else’s hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them. – J. Cornell Michel

99. There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A. – Will Smith

100. I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up. I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude. – Yani Tseng

101. You must accept that you might fail. Then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk. – Rosalynn Carter

102. You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own. – Mark Victor Hansen

103. Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society. – Robert J. Shiller

104. A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, ‘He’s a great player’, because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders. – Pele

105. Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. – Kallam Anji Reddy

106. We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential. – Ryan Holiday

107. 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

108. By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you’ve achieved – and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses – you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments. – Jack Canfield

109. Leaders must exemplify integrity and earn the trust of their teams through their everyday actions. When you do this, you set high standards for everyone at your company. And when you do so with positive energy and enthusiasm for shared goals and purpose, you can deeply connect with your team and customers. – Marillyn Hewson

110. 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. – Larry Bird

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