Motivational Goal Quotes

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. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them. ~ Jim Rohn

Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. ~ Napoleon Hill

Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them. ~ Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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

The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment. ~ Tony Robbins

If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals. ~ Earl Nightingale

Goals are discovered, not made. ~ Richard J. Foster

You get there by realizing you are already there. ~ Eckhart Tolle

No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions. ~ Dan Miller

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

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back? ~ Brian Tracy

Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision. - Bob Proctor ~ Bob Proctor

Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them. ~ John C. Maxwell

It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals. ~ Jonathan Horton

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to ... to work for and hope for. ~ Maxwell Maltz

The value of an ambitious goal is not measured by what it will bring to you. The worth of a goal is measured by what it will make of you in the process of following and attaining it. ~ Ralph Marston

Set goals that are BOLD enough to scare you, but inspiring and exciting enough for you to commit 100% to! ~ Hal Elrod

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. ~ Euripides

Success is the result of clear goal, unshakable confidence, proper planning, enthusiastic ACTION and consistent persistence. ~ James Caan

Be kind to yourself and others. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Just because I give you my all, doesn't mean I'm a pushover. Don't make the mistake of underestimating me. Push too hard and you'll see how strong I really am! ~ Karen Gibbs

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal. ~ Matt Ridley

In times of trouble, may the Lord keep you safe. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Make time daily to connect with your soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead; never let up. ~ Rod Laver

If you're talking about mugging little old ladies, you don't say, 'What's our target for the rate of mugging little old ladies?' You say, 'Mugging little old ladies is bad, and we're going to try to eliminate it.' You recognize you might not be a hundred percent successful, but your goal is to eliminate the mugging of little old ladies. And I think we need to eventually come around to looking at carbon dioxide emissions the same way. ~ Ken Caldeira

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth. ~ Mary E. DeMuth

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear ~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. ~ Swami Vivekananda

I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time. ~ Dan Bouchard

My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset. ~ Jack Nicklaus

First learn to dream big, then the possibilities will follow by itself. ~ Yuikan Shirik

I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world. ~ Adolph Rupp

Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an essay, a novel, a biography - and at one point you realize you don't know where, as a reader, you want to be. Where are you going with this text? What is the goal? How are you supposed to interpret what you're reading? And people's responses vary - some dislike it, and are put off by the confusion, the lack of comprehension. ~ Sergio Chejfec

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya) ~ Ronald Reagan

To succeed, No one's going to make way for you. You must find the light and make way for yourself. ~ Auliq Ice

Never become too good at something you hate, they'll make you do it the rest of your life. ~ Ed Greer

Science has too long focused on intelligence & talent as determiners of success. And it's not. The key to success is to set a specific long-term goal and to do whatever it takes until the goal has been achieved. That's called GRIT (defined as courage and resolve; strength of character). ~ Bob Mayer

If you believe you can achieve your dreams, you find the strength to pursue it. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My goal in a couple of years is to try to build a successful fashion house like Armani or Versace. I want that more than anything. ~ Serena Williams

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have. ~ Brian Tracy

When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you're after. ~ Bill Crawford

The ultimate goal of a meteorologist is to set up differential equations of the movements of the air and to obtain, as their integral, the general atmospheric circulation, and as particular integrals the cyclones, anticyclones, tornados, and thunderstorms. ~ Andrija Maurovic

You cannot rise high dreaming low. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation. ~ Steve Kerr

I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good - Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty. We are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism. ~ Randall Terry

I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in a series stands alone, when read collectively they form one big ongoing novel about the main character. Each book represents its own arc: in book one of the series we meet the character and establish a meta-goal that will carry him through further books, in book two that meta-goal is tested, in book three - you get the picture. ~ Carolyn Wheat

Just because someone tells you that you will never amount to anything doesn't mean you have to prove them right. Prove them wrong by succeeding. There is no sweeter revenge than making someone eat their words. Even if they don't admit they're wrong about you, you will know. ~ Blaque Diamond

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. ~ Will Smith

You cannot be loving if you cannot love yourself. Love begins internally and extends outward. ~ Avina Celeste

You see, we don't know what our goals are. We learn our goals only in the process of getting there You don't know what the baby is going to become. Therefore, you wait and take good care of it until it becomes what it will. ~ Milton H. Erickson

Love's the only goal, that can bring a peace to any soul. ~ Robert Palmer

If you fail today there is always tomorrow to try again. You always have that second chance tomorrow. ~ Avina Celeste

Winning is the obvious goal, but it's not easy. There are so many good drivers and every week is different. I want to win badly, but I understand that it's going to take hard work. In the meantime I'll continue to set obtainable goals and do my best both on and off the racetrack. ~ Danica Patrick

Perhaps the single most important point for parents to follow is the importance of giving goals to a child. And the most important goal is that of growing up to be an adult. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

The highest goal is not distinctions, but synthesis and harmony. ~ Alan Macfarlane

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness. ~ Dalai Lama

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer. ~ Marvin Minsky

Avoiding other people was his new goal in life. ~ James Dashner

Sometimes travelling to your very edge is travelling down to your very core. ~ Talismanist Giebra

Look closely at your greatest thoughts about yourself. That's your future. ~ Quang Nguyen

Our goal should be to understand our differences. ~ James D. Watson

Many people know what they want to have, but have no idea of who they want to be. Getting 'things' simply will not fulfill you. Only living and doing what you believe is 'the right thing' will give you that sense of inner strength that we all deserve. ~ Tony Robbins