60+ Awakening Goal Setting Quotes to Inspire Your Journey in Achieving Your Dreams

Quotes About Goal Setting

Need a push to get started? Find the motivation with these 18 insightful quotes about goal setting.

Importance of Goal Setting Quotes

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So, do you understand the importance of setting your goals? Here is a list of goal setting quotes for your to understand the importance behind it!

• “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
  
• “People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals—that is, goals that do not inspire them.” — Tony Robbins
  
• “Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.” — Brian Lindsay
  
• “Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.” — Robert H. Schuller
  
• “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C. S. Lewis
  
• “To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.” — Seneca
  
• “The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.” — Og Mandino
  
• “In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.” — Alfred A. Montapert
  
• “This one step—choosing a goal and sticking to it—changes everything.” — Scott Reed
  
• “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins
  
• “A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.” — Walt Disney
  
• “Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.” — Tony Robbins
  
• “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
  
• “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein
  
• “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
  
• “In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.” — Author Unknown
  
• “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” — Brian Tracy
  
• “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
  
  

Famous Quotes About Goal Setting

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Read these famous goal setting quotes and set them as your reminders!

• “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
  
• “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
  
• “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
  
• “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
  
• “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
  
• “I think goals should never be easy. They should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” - Michael Phelps
  
• “Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.” - Mark Twain
  
• “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” - Albert Einstein
  
• “My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.” - Wayne Dyer
  
• “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
  
• “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
  
• “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” - Henry David Thoreau
  
• “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” - Estee Lauder
  
• “A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.” - Mary Kay Ash
  
• “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
  
• “Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” - Rabindranath Tagore
  
• “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” - Robert H. Schuller
  
• “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” - Tina Fey
  
• “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 Elijah Mays
  
• “Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself.” - Denis Waitley
  
• “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
  
• “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
  
• “People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.” - Earl Nightingale
  
• “The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focused on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.” - Roopleen
  
• “Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.” - Richelle E. Goodrich
  
• “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
  

Funny Quotes Goal Setting

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Looking for funny goal setting quotes instead? Here, we’ve go you covered with the most hilarious goal setting quotes for you!

• “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” -Yogi Berra
  
• “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” –Ernest Hemingway
  
• “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
  
• “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” –Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  
• “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” –Napoleon Hill
  
• “Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.” –Aldous Huxley
  
• “A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.” –Thomas Fuller
  
• “If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” –J.M. Power
  
• “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” -Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  
• “The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday.” –Jennifer Yane
  
• “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
• “You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.” –Charles C. Noble
  
• “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
  
• “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
• “The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes
  
• “It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.” –Brian Tracy
  
• “The most important thing about goals is having one.” –Geoffry Abert
  
  

Personal Goal Setting Quotes

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Get yourself loaded with more goal setting quotes and start your journey to achieve your goal!

• "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
  
• "If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." –Lawrence J. Peter
  
• "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars." –Les Brown
  
• "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
  
• "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
  
• "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." –Michelangelo
  
• "If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time." –Zig Ziglar
  
• "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." –Henry Ford
  
• "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." –C.S. Lewis
  
• “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” —Andrew Carnegie
  
• “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
  
• “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
  
• “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” —Earl Nightingale