Setting goals is an important part of life. Whether you’re trying to lose weight, save money, or learn something new, having clear objectives will help you achieve success. It is important because it helps us to know what we want to achieve and what we need to work on. Setting goals is not just a way of achieving things, but it also gives our life meaning.
Setting goals can be difficult, as there are many different types of goals that we can set. For example, there are short-term, long-term and lifetime goals. There are also personal and professional goals which have different time spans attached to them.
Quotes can be a great way to keep motivated when you are feeling down, they can also help in setting goals for the future.
This article includes quotes from various famous people on the importance of setting goals.
Quotes For Setting Goals By Entrepreneurs And Business People:
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Orison Swett Marden
I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.
Estée Lauder
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash
A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.
Greg S Reid
Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Tim Blixseth
People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
Elon Musk
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It’s persistence. It’s making your own luck.
Peter Diamandis
This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.
Mark Zuckerberg
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.
Ted Turner
Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.
Tony Hsieh
To reach a port, we must sail Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift.
Steve Jobs
A goal without a timeline is just a dream.
Robert Herjavec
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Cossman
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.
J.P. Morgan
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
W. Clement Stone
When you cease to dream you cease to live.
Malcolm Forbes
Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.
Mike Krieger
Quotes For Setting Goals By Athletes:
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
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.
Bear Bryant
I think goals should never be easy. They should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.
Michael Phelps
I’m not the next anyone- I’m the first.
Maria Sharapova
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.
Magnus Carlsen
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
It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals.
Pat Sumitt
Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.
Lee Haney
With consistency and reps and routine you’re going to achieve your goals and get where you want to be.
Mandy Rose
A winner is someone who recognizes his Godgiven talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird
Do what’s best for you, and do it to the best of your ability go after your goals like nobody’s business.
Michael Oher
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
Goals determine what you’re going to be.
Julius Erving
The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.
Nonito Donaire
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson
If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.
Harsha Bhogle
Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they have been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
Muhammad Ali
It’s perseverance that’s the key. It’s persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.
Lynn Davies
Quotes For Setting Goals By Motivational Speakers:
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
Les Brown
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.
Zig Ziglar
Successful people do things that the average person is not willing to do. They make sacrifices the average person is not willing to make. But the difference it makes is extraordinary.
Brian Tracy
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert Schuller
Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.
Denis Waitely
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins
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
Camaraderie doesn’t happen by accident; developing a strong sense of trust, accountability, and togetherness around team goals requires intentional effort.
Don Yaeger
If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.
Dr. Roopleen
Quotes For Setting Goals By Actors, Musicians, And Artists:
A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee
The great danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michel Angelo
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
You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
Tina Fey
Most impossible goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite-size chunks, writing them down, believing them, and going full speed ahead as if they were routine.
Don Lancaster
I never viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy’s sleeping, I’m working.
Will Smith
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
You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.
RJ Mitte
I know how it looks. But just start. Nothing is insurmountable.
Lin Manuel Miranda
Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your interests, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals.
Jameel Jamil
I believe in the saying, ‘If you aim at nothing, you’re going to hit nothing.’ So if you don’t set goals, then you have nowhere to go.
Taylor Lautner
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
James Cameron
Goals give us purpose, which, in turn, motivates us to make ourselves the best version in all aspects of your life.
Hannah Bronfman
I think that your mind can create almost everything, and that is true for you. Your mind and imagination are fact.
Bjork
Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
Criss Jami
A goal is so much more than a thought in your head. It’s a profound message about who you are and what you are capable of.
Gary Ryan Blair
Chase your dreams. Don’t wait until the dreams come true.
Greyson Chance
Quotes For Setting Goals By Authors, Writers, And Poets:
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
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.
Mark Twain
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream, precedes the goal.
Rabindranath Tagore
My goal is not to be better than anyone else but to be better than I used to be.
Wayne Dyer
In order to know where you’re headed, you must be aware of your own personal goals.
Brian Cagneey
The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.
Robin Sharma
I am here for a purpose, and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all, and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino
Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.
Richelle E. Goodrich
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.
Earl Nightingale
A year from now, you may wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Michael Korda
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
The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact… those people have goals.
Seth Godin
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.
Rachel Carson
If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your daytoday life necessary to achieve it.
Jill Koenig
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
Bo Bennett
One part at a time, one day at a time, we can accomplish any goal we set for ourselves.
Karen Casey
You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
Stephen King
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Diana Scharf
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
Paul J. Meyer
We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.
Ryan Holiday
Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.
Sherry Argov
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
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 Cohello
To dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take action, and achieve it is what true success is all about.
Idowu Koyenikan
Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.
Roy T. Benett
Aim higher in case you fall short.
Suzanne Collins
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
Norman Peale
If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of.
Jack Canfield
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.
Bob Proctor
It’s not about getting out of your comfort zone to reach your goal. It’s about widening your comfort zone so far that your goal fits comfortably inside. Once you do that, hitting your goals will be like hitting 3s for Steph Curry.
Richie Norton
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. Demille
Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.
Robert Louis Stevenson
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.
Nora Roberts
Quotes For Setting Goals By Other Successful People:
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Lawrence J. peter
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.
Benjamin E. Mays
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow, we always win out.
Ronald Reagan
There are two things to aim at in life; first, to get what you want, and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Sir Edmund Hillary
Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.
Michelle Obama
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off! But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Amelia Earhart
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Stephen Hawking
It’s important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.
Yuichiro Miura
The going is the goal.
Horace Kallen
There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it
Mario Kuomo
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor Frankl
The great glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live with purpose.
Michel de Montaigne
Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.
Andy Andrews
A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.
Thomas Fuller
To reach a port, we must sail Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift.
Franklin Roosevelt
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield
To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.
John Glenn
At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.
Jodi Rell
No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Jessica Savitch
Goals transform a random walk into a chase.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action step.
Confuscius
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Seneca The Younger
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
Thomas Fowell Buxton
A purposeless and goalless life is meaningless.
Sunday Adelaja
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln
Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Harriet Tubman
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Fyodor Dostoevsky