134 Inspiring Quotes On Goals

Setting goals is a powerful process that can transform dreams into tangible achievements. Whether you're striving for personal growth, career advancement, or a healthier lifestyle, goals provide the direction and motivation needed to turn aspirations into reality. To inspire and encourage you along your journey, we've gathered a selection of the top 134 quotes that delve into the essence of ambition, perseverance, and success. These quotes, spoken by influential thinkers, leaders, and visionaries, will invigorate your spirit and provide the guidance you need to stay focused on your objectives. Immerse yourself in this collection and let the wisdom of these words illuminate your path to greatness.

1. “If you don't know where you are going,you'll end up someplace else.” - Yogi Berra

2. “There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual.” - R.A. Salvatore

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

4. “Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.” - Audrey Niffenegger

5. “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

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

7. “Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.” - Marilyn Monroe

8. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” - Karen Lamb

9. “What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.” - Ewan McGregor

10. “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

11. “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

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

13. “What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.” - Norman Vincent Peale

14. “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” - Rabindranath Tagore

15. “know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.” - Nora Roberts

16. “يبدو اننا جميعا بحاجة كي نؤمن بأحد ما أو شيء ما. فالحياة دون معنى او اتجاه بائسة حقا. ويبدوانه يتوجب ان نحيا من اجل هدف او شيء ما عزيز علينا ونموت من اجله، سواء كان هذا الهدف او الشيء مبدأ سياسي او خطة حياتية او أمة اوحلما او فكرة او مالا او اسرة. اعتقد ان التقديس هو جبلة في الانسان، وأن قدرنا هو أن نكون عبيدا سواء شئنا ذلك ام ابينا.” - Jeffrey Lang

17. “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

18. “Patience is not passive waiting. Patience is active acceptance of the process required to attain your goals and dreams.” - Ray A. Davis

19. “If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants to department stores to clothing choices to conversations at the dinner table) and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities.” - Kelly Cutrone

20. “Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.” - Flannery O'Connor

21. “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” - Brian Tracy

22. “I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.” - Dara Torres

23. “Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.” - Tom Robbins

24. “من يطارد عصفورين يفقدهما جميعا” - عبدالله محمد الداوود

25. “Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ” - Will Rodgers

26. “Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers. Your dream is the key to your future. The Bible says that, "without a vision (dream), a people perish." You need a dream, if you're going to succeed in anything you do.” - Mark Gorman

27. “If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue! ” - Mark Gorman

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

29. “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

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

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

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

33. “Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.” - Derrick Bell

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

35. “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

36. “If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?” - Ashly Lorenzana

37. “The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work ot make it better.” - Barbra Pletcher

38. “If you're not honest about what you want, you're never going to get anywhere.” - Sara Winters

39. “Be yourself and become wealthy!” - Stephen Richards

40. “Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.” - Stephen Richards

41. “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

42. “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.” - Shannon Alder

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

44. “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

45. “We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world.” - Hark Herald Sarmiento

46. “I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!” - Christina Westover

47. “Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.” - Rodolfo Costa

48. “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

49. “If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.” - Oscar Wilde

50. “Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come. Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.What would you like to have happen in your life this year? What would you like to do, to accomplish? What good would you like to attract into your life? What particular areas of growth would you like to have happen to you? What blocks, or character defects, would you like to have removed?What would you like to attain? Little things and big things? Where would you like to go? What would you like to have happen in friendship and love? What would you like to have happen in your family life?What problems would you like to see solved? What decisions would you like to make? What would you like to happen in your career?Write it down. Take a piece of paper, a few hours of your time, and write it all down - as an affirmation of you, your life, and your ability to choose. Then let it go. 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.” - Melody Beattie

51. “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

52. “The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.” - L.M. Montgomery

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 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

55. “While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires.” - Steve Maraboli

56. “Whatever you think you are, you are always bigger than that...” - Gino Norris

57. “Thinking about working out burns 0 calories, 0 percentage of fat and accomplishes 0 goals!” - Gwen Ro

58. “You know, you spend your childhood watching TV, assuming that at some point in the future everything you see will one day happen to you: that you too will win a Formula One race, hop a train, foil a group of terrorists, tell someone 'Give me the gun', etc. Then you start secondary school, and suddenly everyone's asking you about your career plans and your long-term goals, and by goals they don't mean the kind you are planning to score in the FA Cup. Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the rollercoaster ride you'd imagined,that the world occupied by your parents, the world of washing dishes, going to the dentist, weekend trips to the DIY superstore to buy floor-tiles, is actually largely what people mean when they speak of 'life'.” - Paul Murray

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

60. “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

61. “Remember this—the journey is part of the dream.  Whatever it is you're chasing, so long as you are actively moving in the right direction, the dream is coming true.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

62. “When life gives you lemons, use Cosmic Ordering!” - Stephen Richards

63. “Cosmic Ordering is a dish best served today.” - Stephen Richards

64. “With Cosmic Ordering you will never eat humble pie again.” - Stephen Richards

65. “There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour.” - Stephen Richards

66. “Whatever your desire, use Cosmic Ordering to get what you require!” - Stephen Richards

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

68. “The only secret of wealth creation is knowing how to use Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

69. “Twenty years from now you will be disappointed you never used Cosmic Ordering today.” - Stephen Richards

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

71. “Often the only difference between success and failure is not using Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

72. “There are more triumphs than defeats with Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

73. “Ehren wir die Freiheit. Arbeiten wir für den Frieden. Halten wir uns an das Recht. Dienen wir unseren inneren Maßstäben der Gerechtigkeit."[Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages]” - Richard von Weizsäcker

74. “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

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

76. “An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.” - Brian Tracy

77. “Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.” - Brian Tracy

78. “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

79. “What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?” - Eleanor Roat

80. “To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple:1) Count your blessings first2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better3) Go step by step, One day at a time.4) Create/make your own opportunities.5) Believe in your abilities at all times,6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going.7) Finish what you started” - Pablo

81. “Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.” - Criss Jami

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. “Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.” - Elbert Hubbard

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

86. “Whatever you do in your life, always go the distance.” - Ken Norton

87. “People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.” - Zig Ziglar

88. “You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.” - Dr Roopleen

89. “Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.” - Dr Roopleen

90. “Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.” - Dr Roopleen

91. “To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.” - Dr Roopleen

92. “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

93. “There is nothing in this world that you cannot do. Every goal is achievable. You just need to focus on your objectives, be persistent in your efforts and work hard to make it happen. There can be no hurdle uncrossable, no obstacle invincible and no stumbling block insurmountable.” - Dr Roopleen

94. “My goal is to sweep the reader away from his world and bring him along for the adventure. Learning something new shouldn’t feel like work, nor should today’s younger reader be underestimated. If done correctly, there is no need to “dumb down” the plot or simplify words. When someone tells me he thought The Serpent’s Ring was easy to read, I know I succeeded in my storytelling.” - H.B. Bolton

95. “Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

96. “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

97. “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

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

99. “Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action!” - Steve Maraboli

100. “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

101. “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

102. “Treat yourself like a fat person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck--you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.” - Chalene Johnson

103. “What’s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission made up. It’s up to you to make your life. Take what you have and stack it up like a tower of teetering blocks. Build your dream around that.” - Cheryl Strayed

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

105. “Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.” - Jules Michelet

106. “Entrust your dreams and goals to people who will cheer you on and inspire you, who will tell you what you need to hear rather than what you want to hear so you can move forward and fast track.” - Rachael Bermingham

107. “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

108. “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

109. “Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.” - Shannon L. Alder

110. “Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard bringsmore satisfaction in the end.” - Megan Hart

111. “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

112. “when you shoot for the stars, you can't ever look back.” - Brittany Perloff

113. “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

114. “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

115. “Like a gift, beautifully wrapped at the foot of your bed each morning, today asks that you open it and enjoy everything inside. Exhaust yourself with all it has to offer!” - Steve Maraboli

116. “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

117. “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

118. “I recommend that you focus on both substance and process of your goals. I believe that both are equally important: by setting a high-quality SMART goal you will enable yourself to be conscious and your actions will carry more meaning; meanwhile, it is the execution of the SMART goals strategy that separates achievers from the rest of the people.” - Anna Stevens

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. “No more excuses or procrastination! Stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals.” - Steve Maraboli

121. “Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.” - Steve Maraboli

122. “New levels bring new devils. Stay unapologetically committed to your goals and let go of anyone who poisons your spirit.” - Steve Maraboli

123. “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

124. “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

125. “In between saying something and achieving it, there is some pothole to fill; that’s “doing it”. Goals are pursued with the word “GO” and visions with the word “VENTURE”. You can’t be living always in the promise of the cloud; it must rain now!” - Israelmore Ayivor

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

127. “Discovering While Doing Is Natural...But,Doing Immediately After Discovering Is The Attitude of Winners!” - Sujit Lalwani

128. “When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day.” - George Alexiou

129. “Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

130. “Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.” - Andre Dubus III

131. “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

132. “The BIG push means being able to develop and sustain momentum toward your goal; it is the process of actively replacing excuses with winning habits, the ultimate excuses blockers. Moreover, it is being willing to go to the wall for what you want or believe in, to push beyond your previous mental and physical limits, no matter what it takes.” - Lorii Myers

133. “It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To spread out, reach areas, experiences, comprehend and live in an evolving fashion. To push aside routine and repetition, to break out of mindless monotony and thrust forward. To keep moving on . . .” - Philip K. Dick

134. “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