When people are inspired, they achieve more than they ever thought possible. — Michael Abrashoff
A goal properly set is halfway reached. — Zig Ziglar
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
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them — Jim Rohn
Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for. — Roy T. Bennett
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. — Tony Robbins
A goal is a dream with a timeframe on it. — Dan Miller
Goals help you channel your energy into action. — Les Brown
Set goals, challenge yourself, and achieve them. Live a healthy life...and make every moment count. Rise above the obstacles, and focus on the positive. — Robert H. Goddard
Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it. — Emil Zatopek
Inspire yourself to be great. Being good isn't good enough. — Gurbaksh Chahal
You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you. — Roger Federer
Short Inspirational Goal Setting Quotes
We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles — Jim Rohn
Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to. — Jim Stynes
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. — Brian Tracy
A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself. — Deena Kastor
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. — Brian Tracy
Great accomplishments start with great aspirations. — Gary Hamel
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. — Anita DeFrantz
A goal is simply a dream with a deadline. — Willie Jolley
A goal is a dream with a finish line. — Duke Ellington
Inspirational Goal Setting Image Quotes
Direction, not intention determines your destination. — Andy Stanley
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Setting High Goals Quotes
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. — Rabindranath Tagore
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. — Bo Jackson
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
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
Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there. — Bo Jackson
Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence — Hans Christian Andersen
Fear has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run or Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. — Emil Zatopek
Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground. — Li Ka-shing
The process of setting a goal, learning the necessary steps to achieve it, and giving it your best until you've mastered it will generate high self-esteem and pride. Those are feelings associated with joy. — Jude Bijou
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
Setting Goals For Success Quotes
I've always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do. — Alice Coachman
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests. — Sheryl Sandberg
Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success. — Yogi Berra
Important leadership skill is precisely communicating your intent — that is, proposing what the properties of successful execution would be, while leaving the choices of how to achieve those goals for the team to propose in return. — Greg Brockman
Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft — Nido R Qubein
I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself. — Brian Tracy
The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it — Brian Tracy
Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target. — Brian Tracy
Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success. — Brian Tracy
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere — Henry A. Kissinger
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett
The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat. — Dan Gable
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals. — Brian Tracy
Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much. — Jim Rohn
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
Set daily, monthly and long term goals and dreams. Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it. — Nastia Liukin
The biggest cause of procrastination is not being excited by what you’re building towards. — Tom Bilyeu
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal. — Elbert Hubbard
Setting And Achieving Goals Quotes
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. — Tom Landry
Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. — Ronald McNair
It’s very important to help people figure out how to manage life, to help people figure out how to think, help inspire them, help show them what can be gained from setting goals and achieving them and that excellent feeling – and that becomes contagious. —
In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold. — Benjamin Zander
An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life. — Kristi Yamaguchi
With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about. — Brian Tracy
For me, once the goals was set I had to try and do my best to achieve it. — Martyn Ford
Visualizing your dreams and doing nothing about them is like setting the sat-nav in your car but refusing to turn the engine on. The law of attraction is nothing without the law of action. — Steven Bartlett
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
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good. — Valerie Solanas
Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past. — Joseph M. Juran
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
Make a plan that truly reflects your goals and interests, and you'll be more likely to execute. Why pretend you're going to work out every single day when you know you're only going to do it three times a week? — Tim Grover
Decide who you want to become. Make that the center of your focus. — Tom Bilyeu
I'm a big fan of intention. That's because I have learned first-hand the power of setting my intention on my goal and making all decisions based off of that intention. — Lewis Howes
The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break. — Rick Hansen
Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms — Daniel Boone
Wanting things fast doesn’t make them happen faster, it means you only go after smaller goals. — Alex Hormozi
I was in my 20s when I started writing my goals down, assigning each a date that I would achieve them by. I was amazed when I started reaching these goals by the date I had listed on them. — Lewis Howes
Achieving Goals Quotes
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. — Thomas Jefferson
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team. — Jim Harbaugh
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another. — Alexander Graham Bell
...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means. — W. Edwards Deming
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. — Harriet Tubman
To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before. — Stephen Covey
If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. — Brian Tracy
Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal. — Neem Karoli Baba
Inspirational New Year Quotes
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. — Henry David Thoreau
The secret of getting ahead is getting started — Mark Twain
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be. — Bruce Springsteen
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. — Steven Spielberg
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. — Nelson Mandela
Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. — Rumi
Whether we want them or not, the New Year will bring new challenges; whether we seize them or not, the New year will bring new opportunities. — Michael Josephson
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that. — James Earl Jones
Inspirational Coaching Quotes
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today. — Mikhail Gorbachev
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. — James Naismith
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
New Year Motivational Quotes
Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel. — Kevin Trudeau
Decide that you are not going to stay where you are. — J. P. Morgan
Another fresh new year is here. Another year to live! To Banish worry, doubt and fear, to love and give — William Arthur Ward
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. — Arnold Bennett
when you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on. — Hillary Clinton
Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Transformation isn't a future event, it's a present day activity — Jillian Michaels
As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning. — Criss Jami
Self Inspirational Quotes
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra
Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin. — Halle Berry
The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life. — Witness Lee
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher. — Herb Brooks
Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. — Napoleon Hill
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. — Denis Waitley
If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do. — Steve Pavlina
I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads. — Cassandra Wilson
A winner is someone who sets their goals, commits themselves to those goals and then pursues their goals with all the ability that is given to them. That requires someone who beleives in themselves, who will make self sacrifices, work hard, and maintain the determination to perform at the best of their ability. — Leeman Bennett
I don’t think we set and achieve goals in an effort to become happy. We do it because we are happy and want to expand our happiness. — Dan Sullivan
The dreams I chased took me on a journey,a journey more rewarding than the goals — Shahrukh Khan
I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions that I couldn't answer- because I had no direction. When I got clear on exactly where I wanted to go, and set the goals to get there, my mind calmed down. — Chip Wilson
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Joe Strummer
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. — Saul Bellow
I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change — Jim Rohn
By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you. — Bob Proctor
Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results. — Mark Victor Hansen
We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that we can become what our heavenly father wants us to become. — M. Russell Ballard
You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. — Ted Turner
Map out your future, but do it in pencil. — Jon Bon Jovi
Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets. — Seth Godin
If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something. — Dale Carnegie
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. — Chester Carlson
Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor. — Brian Tracy
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. — Mary Kay Ash
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals. — Booker T. Washington
Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low nor too high. A good goal should be lofty enough to inspire hard work, yet realistic enough to provide solid hope of attainment. — Greg Norman
Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them. — Jim Rohn
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. — Denis Waitley
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. — Seneca
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