133 Goals Achievement Quotes

In the pursuit of our dreams and aspirations, motivation can sometimes wane. Whether you're striving to hit a personal milestone, advance in your career, or simply seeking inspiration to keep pushing forward, the right words can make all the difference. That's why we've gathered a compelling collection of the top 133 Goals Achievement Quotes. These powerful quotes are designed to reignite your passion, bolster your resolve, and keep you focused on your path to success. Dive in and let these pearls of wisdom guide you toward achieving your goals, one step at a time.

1. “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 goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.” - Benjamin E Mays

2. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

3. “But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationAs my two eyes make one in sight.” - Robert Frost

4. “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

5. “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

6. “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” - Robert Schuller

7. “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” - Seneca the Younger

8. “I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down.” - Mia Hamm

9. “The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.” - Saki

10. “Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.” - Liz Smith

11. “When you could do anything, what you decide to do is important.” - Neal R. Voron

12. “Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” - E. Joseph Cossman

13. “But Alonso kept smiling that smile and nothing made any sense with that smile looking you in the face. 'Jim, don't tell me that, you know, brother-shit. I have been through it all. Take, you know, advice. There is only one thing and that is the kick, the Now. Nothing else counts. Get yours. Get it because, you know, no one cares and they will always put you down in the end, Jim, and the only word that counts is, you know, Now. Not that foolish brother and bopping jazz, Jim. Now. Because if it all don't go up in any, you know, twenty minutes; up, all gone; then they are going to put you down and keep you down. Now.” - Sol Yurick

14. “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

15. “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

16. “People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.” - Anthony Robbins

17. “I worked for a menial’s hire,Only to learn, dismayed,That any wage I had asked of Life,Life would have willingly paid.” - Jessie B. Rittenhouse

18. “Aim higher in case you fall short.” - Suzanne Collins

19. “Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.” - Theodore Roosevelt

20. “And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you’re poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same.” - Sue Miller

21. “No man runs the race until he sees the dream.” - Fred C. White

22. “You have had a dream for so many years. Let today be the day you make a plan for it. Just think about how much more likely you are to hit your target when you finally aim at it.” - Steve Maraboli

23. “What keeps me going is goals.” - Muhammad Ali

24. “Scorpions are quite ruthless, you know. That is why Artemis bid one of them to kill her foe Orion. And as a reward she set the scorpion on up in the sky. I'm not ruthless. I merely do whatever it takes to achive my goalsThat's not ruthless?” - Lisa Kleypas

25. “This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both the Civil War and the Second World War. But 1861 and 1941 each created a common national narrative (which happened to be the victors' narrative): both wars were about the country's survival and the expansion of the freedoms on which it was founded. Nothing like this consensus has formed around September 11th.... Indeed, the decade since the attacks has destroyed the very possibility of a common national narrative in this country.” - George Packer

26. “Dream your dream; and realize that you are more than just the dreamer, you are the point of origin for its reality.” - Steve Maraboli

27. “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

28. “Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with.” - T.F. Hodge

29. “Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it.” - T.F. Hodge

30. “To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.” - T.F. Hodge

31. “I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold” - Dale Wasserman

32. “Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.” - Richelle Goodrich

33. “You can capture this body of mine, take away my freedom and enslave me. You may even have the power to capture my soul and sentence me to the realm of eternal darkness. But my dreams you cannot touch. They are my will―the very essence of who I am. In them I laugh. In them I cry. In them I love. And in them.....I live.My dreams are untouchable and unceasing.” - Richelle Goodrich

34. “What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.” - George Alexiou

35. “The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.” - David Allen

36. “If life didn’t give you at least one person not wanting you to succeed then half of us would lose are motivation to climb that cliff, in order to prove them wrong.” - Shannon Alder

37. “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

38. “Becoming wealthy is about accumulating wealth.” - Stephen Richards

39. “In a culture of hyper-consumption the advertising industry has brainwashed many people into believing they can raise their status just by driving a particular brand of whatever it is they are pushing at you.” - Stephen Richards

40. “Do not invest time and money into yourself to have others completely destroy it!” - Stephen Richards

41. “When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.” - Shannon L. Alder

42. “Second half of the year starts NOW July 1st with the next 6 months being MORE important than the last 6 months. I Your Name promise to do all that I can to achieve my Goal . I will not sit on a corner wait I will seek my opportunity. I promise to go after my Goal with passion knowing that the clock is ticking… Sign and date” - Pablo

43. “There is nothing around me but money, money, money.” - Stephen Richards

44. “The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.” - Richard Bach

45. “If you have a painting in you, paint. If you have a song to sing, sing. Don’t judge your creation. Just create it. Banish doubt and fear and step out of your own way if you have to. Write if you’re a writer and invent if you’re an inventor. Do what you were born to do. Only then will you know a remarkable life.” - Toni Sorenson

46. “Refrain to-night;And that shall lend a kind of easinessTo the next abstinence, the next more easy;For use almost can change the stamp of nature,And either master the devil or throw him outWith wondrous potency.” - William Shakespeare

47. “It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work.” - Therone Shellman

48. “A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.” - Katie Couric

49. “If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.” - Kristin Armstrong

50. “[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.” - Iain Pears

51. “The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.” - Shannon Alder

52. “Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.” - Gail Tsukiyama

53. “Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.” - Steve Chandler

54. “I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.” - Martha Stewart

55. “I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?” - Stephen King

56. “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” - John Milton Lawrence

57. “CHAPTER VIConcerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And AbilityLET no one be surprised if, in speaking of entirely new principalities as I shall do, I adduce the highest examples both of prince and of state; because men, walking almost always in paths beaten by others, and following by imitation their deeds, are yet unable to keep entirely to the ways of others or attain to the power of those they imitate. A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.” - Nicolo Machiavelli

58. “Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.” - Jodi Picoult

59. “Your goals and dreams will never happen if you don't Sow Labor Into Time” - Brenda Johnson Padgitt

60. “It's Up to You To Get Your Dreams and Goals Moving” - Brenda Johnson Padgitt

61. “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

62. “Cosmic Ordering is a licence to print money.” - Stephen Richards

63. “Believe and achieve with Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

64. “Some people only dream of success… while others wake up and use Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

65. “A clever person solves a problem; a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!” - Stephen Richards

66. “A man may fail many times, and then he turns to Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

67. “To fail is nothing, unless you continue to ignore Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

68. “Riches will come when you follow Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

69. “The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.” - Max Mckeown

70. “The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.” - Steve Maraboli

71. “It is a rare goal that has only one path.” - Carma Spence

72. “I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.[Interview with Oprah Winfrey, June 5, 2007]” - Cormac McCarthy

73. “Any activity where you let go of fears and doubts and inertia, and move toward a goal you desire brings, if not the goal itself (which may or may not be available to you) but brings you a life full of adventure, dedication, excitement and fulfillment – in other words – satisfaction and happiness.” - martin gover

74. “A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!” - Deeba Salim Irfan

75. “Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are. Never settle for someone that didn't know your worth from the beginning, or build a life without God in it. Live beyond your low expectations.” - Shannon L. Alder

76. “The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!” - Shannon L. Alder

77. “It’s called an ‘accomplishment’, not an ‘intent-ishment’. You’ve got to BE it to SEE it. NO MORE EXCUSES - Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there!” - Steve Maraboli

78. “I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I ever wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears.” - richard wright

79. “Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.” - Anthony Robbins

80. “Your ultimate goal should be partners with your ultimate fear.” - Lionel Suggs

81. “A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.” - Ted Willams

82. “To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requires courage. The bridge that merges the two is commitment.” - Steve Maraboli

83. “I don't so much mind looking back on having lost the election, or having been denied a role in the play, or having had my novel repeatedly rejected, or having been turned down for a date, or recalling laughter at my expense when I attempted some silly challenge.  Those things simply prove that I lived life.  What I do mind, however, is looking back on the lost opportunities where imagined concerns kept me from even trying—lose or win.  I've learned that there is no regret in a brave attempt, only in cowering to fear.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

84. “I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.” - Meagan Earls

85. “Every person that has lived with purpose has at one time or another answered these questions: Do you remember who you were before the world, and it's evil stole your hope? Do you remember who you wanted to be before a religion, culture or organization told you to be something you were not? Do you remember what your dream was before they told you that it was unachievable? Do you remember the moments God kept taking you back to the one thing you were best at (but you kept denying it)? Do you remember the moments He handed you the opportunity and you walked away, instead? Do you remember the moments He kept closing the doors on the one thing you wanted because it wouldn't help you? Do you remember it was all going to be okay if you simply believed, but you gave up? For every bad moment, we blamed others, kept score, got even and forgot to live. When you remember your "true self", then you can begin to walk forward once again down the road to discovery, childhood dreams and your life purpose. (Writer's Conference, 2012)” - Shannon L. Alder

86. “Celebrating your achievements and applauding your triumphs is a sure way to refuel your enthusiasm and keep yourself motivated for your future endeavours.” - Dr Roopleen

87. “It is not important for life to meet your great expectations. What is important is that you hold high expectations of yourself and meet them greatly.” - Dr Roopleen

88. “Without ambition, no goal can be met.” - Kya Aliana

89. “Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

90. “With your goal you make the one.” - Dejan Stojanovic

91. “Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

92. “Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew.The magical spell to your dreams coming true.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

93. “Every step towards your dream today is a step away from your regret tomorrow.” - Steve Maraboli

94. “Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be associated with any goal, concept or belief.” - Amit Ray

95. “Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.” - Paulo Coelho

96. “Harnessing the unique sex energy that can only arise through sexual expression can awaken multidimensional awareness and provide you with your desired goal.” - Stephen Richards

97. “My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?” - Barry Deutsch

98. “Goals are my north star.  My compass.  The map that guides me along the road I wish to travel.  Goals are motivations with wind in their sails—they carry me forward despite the storms.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

99. “People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!'"[What It Is (2009)]” - Dylan Moran

100. “Many surround themselves with luminaries, but in so doing they dull their own sparkle. If you want to shine bright, look to the heavens and see how the brightest star always stands apart from those lesser shining stars.” - Stephen Richards

101. “Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.” - Alain De Botton

102. “Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be *more* successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.” - Chalene Johnson

103. “After a few months of talking with people and observing them, I realized that the traits of the successful fitness enthusiasts had everything in common with those of the high achievers I had spent years studying in business.” - Chalene Johnson

104. “...goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything.” - Charles R. Swindoll

105. “the goal is to keep yourself moving, remember? don't linger. don't hover. you are not going to stay.” - Terra Elan McVoy

106. “Everyone lives a self-centered life...whether its trivial like what's for breakfast, or more ambitious, like achieving some lofty goal, a person is constantly on her own mind.” - T.M. Goeglein

107. “إحلم لأقصى مدى فليس هناك حد للأحلام.. احلم لأرفع مكان.. احلم بأروع إنسان.. احلم وأطلق العنان..” - عبدالله العثمان

108. “While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.” - Rasheed Ogunlaru

109. “To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.” - Criss Jami

110. “There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.” - Lalita Tademy

111. “الهدف من الدراسةالتعلم, وليس الحصول على ومعدل عالي! فعندما تجعل غايتك الأولى,ستحصل على الثانية.وعندما تجعل غايتك الثانية,ستصعب عليك الأولى.” - Kholoud Yasser

112. “How much longer will you sit back and wait for your dream to spontaneously come true? Too many days, weeks, months, and years have passed! Do not be unresponsive to your own dreams. Now, set a course of action that will lead to bringing your dream into reality.” - Steve Maraboli

113. “Don’t let the agony, regret, or fog of yesterday blind you to the fact that each new day carries with it a plethora of opportunities to move your life into the right direction.” - Steve Maraboli

114. “Don’t make excuses; rather, find support and resources to make good things happen for yourself, your family, your businesses, your community, and the world you live in.” - Anna Stevens

115. “All the answers to your questions about what your goals can and should be lie within, so does your power to accomplish those goals.” - Anna Stevens

116. “Managers’ responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company’s strategy. The company’s strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees’ productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor. ” - Anna Stevens

117. “We all know many people who come from hard-working families, where they had to grow up with a bare minimum and become self-sufficient and independent at a very young age. We look at them now and see responsible citizens, self-reliant adults, successful members of the business community, outstanding performers, and just happy people. Yes, they’re happy, because they know the meaning of labor, they appreciate the pleasure of leisure, they value relationships with others, and they respect themselves. In contrast, there are people who come from wealthy families, had nannies to do everything for them, went to private schools where they were surrounded with special attention, never did their own laundry, never learned how to cook an omelet for themselves, never even gained the essential skills of unwinding on their own before bedtime, and of course, never did anything for anyone else either. You look at their adult life and see how dependent they are on others and how unhappy they are because of that. They need someone to constantly take care of them. They may see no meaning in their life as little things don’t satisfy them, because they were spoiled at a very young age. They may suffer a variety of eating disorders, use drugs, alcohol and other extremes in search of satisfaction and comfort. And, above all, in search of themselves.” - Anna Stevens

118. “When the zone calls, you must listen. You never know how long being in the zone lasts. It is a cardinal rule - you must take advantage of every second that you are in the zone.” - John Passaro

119. “It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.” - Charles Darwin

120. “Unzip your life right now, air out the putrid and bleach the infection, then invite your childhood dreams back, beckon the best of you and breathe deeper than you have in a very long time. Believe in the holdings of your heart. You can become anyone and anything your heart desires once you clear the clutter and stuff yourself with positive power and intentions.” - Toni Sorenson

121. “The journey of success requires a map for effective navigation. Establish a destination by defining what you want. Once you have a destination, take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination.” - Steve Maraboli

122. “Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them.” - Steve Maraboli

123. “Let today be the day you finally stop having a conflict between your actions and your goals. When you align your greatest intent with purposeful action, you create a universal symphony serenading your success!” - Steve Maraboli

124. “We’re a society that creates super heroes who aren’t really super heroes. They are just regular people who live in alignment with their goals and dreams. They don’t just talk about it, the LIVE it. You can choose to do the same.” - Steve Maraboli

125. “Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior.” - Julian Barnes

126. “Perhaps you have been wondering about how you will win the tournaments of life. This is an important moment of your life. Just know where your goals are. Dress in the jersey of action and enter the game of vision! Work with your talents, skills, and tactics and with determination! Don’t commit any foul; don’t put yourself on an offside position. Be at the right place at the right time. Attack your failures and defend your goals; look up and watch the time because the whistle may blow at any time. Don’t waste the chances you get! Target the goals and with winning in focus, you will be there!” - Israelmore Ayivor

127. “You are successful when you accomplish the goals and dreams you set for yourself.” - Brenda Johnson Padgitt

128. “It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far out of your own and everybody else's idea of who you are and what you're capable of, that you no longer believe in limits. It's about reaching beyond your so-called potential, because your potential is never where you or anyone else expects it to be, not even close. It's about being able to say with the last breath of your life “I used all my potential and all my talents and pushed myself to the limit. I could not have fought any harder.” - Charlotte Eriksson

129. “I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte” - Charlotte Eriksson

130. “Do not postpone what's important to you simply because others don't share your priorities” - Hemal Jhaveri

131. “You can set your mind to anything, just keep concentrating.” - Dylan Anders Porter

132. “An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.” - Lorii Myers

133. “Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.” - Shannon L. Alder