Inspirational Goal Setting Quotes

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them ~ Jim Rohn

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. ~ Seneca The Younger

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

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

Sometimes we just have to suck it up and do what we have to do, until we are able to do what we want to do. ~ Mark W. Boyer

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

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. ~ Les Brown

Taylor Swift on why girls look up to her:
It's the message. I try to have a normal life and look at things in a normal way, under very abnormal circumstances. That's always going to be my main goal, that's always what I'm going to strive for, to be a normal human being. It's interesting because you're put in really abnormal situations. You have an abnormal-size microscope covering your life and everything you do. You look at the idea of being 22, that's when you're supposed to be out there living and being selfish and making mistakes and messing up. If I mess up once, it's a headline everywhere. ~ Taylor Swift

When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their hands. When he asked how many of them had that list with them right that moment, only one person raised their hand. That person was Dan O'Brien. And it was Dan O'Brien who went on to win the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Don't underestimate the power of setting goals and constantly reviewing them. ~ Jack Canfield

God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you. ~ John Patrick Hickey

Keep your goal challenging enough that you have to change to achieve it. ~ Debasish Mridha

When you decide - follow it up with action as spontaneously as possible if not sooner because the quicker you reciprocate with the decision the sooner you shall see results. ~ Auliq Ice

Be prepared to say "no" to some things. That is the key. When you say "yes" to every invitation, event and call, you will come back to meet you plans on the paper in the same state you left them. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money. ~ Stephen Richards

If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you. ~ John Patrick Hickey

You will never achieve a goal by definition unless you try. ~ Auliq Ice

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration. ~ Evan Esar

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it ~ Confucius

Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have. ~ John Patrick Hickey

When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame. ~ Boris Kodjoe

A person has to have a target, a goal, a mission statement, a dream, a vision of what she/he wants to accomplish, or nothing lasting will be realized. ~ Teresa Hampton

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. ~ Anthony Robbins

Your choices of values and determining their priority precedes your goal setting ~ Sunday Adelaja

What might be your current goal can motivate you in some situations. For like when you priority something and you have loose ends on it, it will make your back itch. ~ Alberto D. Bautista

Our success depends on goal-oriented, focused actions, not on distractions. ~ Debasish Mridha

Positive energy is your priceless life force. Protect it. Don't allow people to draw from your reserves; select friends who recharge your energies ... I'm not asking you to cut people out of your life, but I am asking you to invest your time with people who will push you to be your best. Winners love to see other people win. ~ Chalene Johnson

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine. ~ Chris Hadfield

There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot. ~ Joe Vitale

It is the process of deeply anchoring yourself to a worthy goal that enables you to have the means released along the way to become that super-racer, become that vehicle that transcends all limitations, that goes beyond the horizontal level, that ascends to higher and more powerful levels all the time. ~ Maha Devi Li Ra La

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Goals are like magnets. They'll attract the things that make them come true. ~ Tony Robbins

Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up. ~ Victoria Addino

The goal is always the same. I want to change people's lives and bring them closer to the Lord in a new way. I want to confront them with an issue. ~ Frank E. Peretti

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach the one way to get the goal he would reach. ~ Edgar A. Guest

On the journey to achievement, you must be learning all the time. ~ John Patrick Hickey

What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?"
I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know?
"There is time," she said, "but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning. ~ Louis L'Amour

And she knew that her fate wasn't set by how or where she was born, but the decisions she made and the battles she fought. It didn't matter if she had eight toes or ten, amber eyes or blue. What mattered was what she set out to do. ~ Robert Beatty

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two ~ Hugh B. Brown

Focus is a mental commitment to winning against all odds. Focus is beyond putting things together in order to reach a goal. Focus is longing for the goal; it is conditioning self to connect with the forces needed to achieve said goal. Focus is beyond toiling day and night, it is the mind's eye seeing only the harvests of the future and oblivious of the challenges of the present. ~ Asuni LadyZeal

The Master, by residing in the Tao,
sets an example for all beings.
Because he doesn't display himself,
people can see his light.
Because he has nothing to prove,
people can trust his words.
Because he doesn't know who he is,
people recognize themselves in him.
Because he has no goal in mind,
everything he does succeeds. ~ Lao-Tzu

To achieve in life is A hard story, But that shouldn't scare you. ~ Auliq Ice

Passion is the degree of difficulty we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal. ~ Louie Giglio

Don't be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose. ~ Tony Curl

When life is tough, use Cosmic Ordering. When life is great, use Cosmic Ordering. ~ Stephen Richards

You have to set the time frame for accomplishing your goal. If you don't, it may take forever to reach your destination and you may get tired and change your focus. Consequently, to help you obtain and keep the sense of urgency that will help you stay focused, you have to set a deadline by which the goal has to be achieved. ~ Anna Stevens

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ~ Rita Mae Brown

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all. ~ Og Mandino

Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular. ~ Alveda King

We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life.
In all of that time there is never a course in overcoming adversity, goal setting, sacrifice, perseverance, teammates, or family.
I guess that's what wrestling is for. ~ JohnA Passaro

The sated day is never first
The best day is a day of thirst
Yes, there is goal and meaning in our path -
but it is the way that is the labour's worth. ~ Karin Boye

To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group. ~ George M. Gilbert