In fact, only very few people actually articulate the things they want, but making some realistic goals can help you for living better and put your life in a new focus. Inspirational goal setting quotes will remind you of the importance of having dreams and a purpose in your life by motivating you to achieve.
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Top Goal Setting Quotes
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. Earl Nightingale
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
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
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. Les Brown
I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time. Michael Phelps
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
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. Ted Turner
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
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
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. Gary Ryan Blair
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Confucius
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
There’s nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be. Paloma Faith
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control now. Denis Waitley
Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals. LL Cool J
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
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change. Les Brown
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
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. John Dewey
Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don’t do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals. John H. Johnson
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. Robery H. Schuller
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
Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent. Venus Williams
History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. Haile Selassie
Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent. Ginni Rometti
The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance. Bad Bunny
It’s an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist. Cesar Millan
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
f you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. James Cameron
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
I am constantly reevaluating my goals and trying to strike items from my to-do list that aren’t critical. Aisha Tyler
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road. Albert Camus
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
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
Where are the people who don’t have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent. Shiv Khera
If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals. Tadashi Yanai
I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment. Nadia Comaneci
But there’s one thing we must all be clear about terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people. Salman Rushdie
People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop but that’s what it takes to accomplish your goals. Curtis Jackson
I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They’ve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them. Josie Loren
My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones. Kiana Tom
I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams. Katie Ledecky
You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic. Jerry West
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
It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals. Pat Summitt
I have short goals to get better every day, to help my teammates every day but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing. LeBron James
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance. Brian Tracy
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. Michael Korda
It’s important to be driven and have goals. You want an independent woman who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to go after it. It’s attractive to me when a woman is doing what she loves. It makes me want to know more. Apolo Ohno
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
I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy. Lionel Messi
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done. Rachel Carson
As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content. J. Cole
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. Tony Robbins
A proper criminal justice system exacts justice that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but they are secondary to retribution. Michael J. Knowles
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Brian Tracy
Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team. Frederick W. Smith
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
Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest. Howard Graham Buffett
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. Sid Caeser
I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don’t have someone next to me saying, Here you go, now do this, it’s your next step, go for it. Reem Acra
You can always find a solution if you try hard enough. Lori Greiner
If you’re climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don’t look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don’t think you’re progressing until you step back and see how high you’ve really gone. Donny Osmond
