A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated. — Aristotle
A goal properly set is halfway reached. — Zig Ziglar
Goals help you channel your energy into action. — Les Brown
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them — Jim Rohn
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. — Brian Tracy
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
One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it. — Earl Nightingale
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek. — Mario Andretti
The most effective form of motivation is progress. — James Clear
Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
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
Inspirational Goal Setting Quotes
I've always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do. — Alice Coachman
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
Direction, not intention determines your destination. — Andy Stanley
You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.
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. —
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
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
Set a goal that makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning.
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
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
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
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
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream...
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
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
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
Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals — Spencer W. Kimball
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
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
As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end. — Paul Kane
Personal Motivation Quotes
Pimp stands for Positive Intellectual Motivated Person. It has nothing to do with selling sex for money. — Christian Finnegan
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be. — Greg Plitt
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry. — Hosea Ballou
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. — Tim Ferriss
There are people who make things happen, there are people who
watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what
happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes
things happen. — Jim Lovell
Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter. — Michael Oher
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela
Self Motivation Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. — C. S. Lewis
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. — Mother Teresa
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham Maslow
Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it? — Gordon Bethune
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
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. — Bo Jackson
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
Life Motivation Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale
Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. — Nido R Qubein
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. — Charles Dickens
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. — A. A. Milne
Work Motivation Quotes
In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart. — Miyamoto Musashi
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. — Benjamin Franklin
We all have to work in our respective spheres with the same dedication, the same zeal and the same determination which inspired and motivated the warrior on the battle front. And this has to be shown not by mere words, but by actual deeds. — Lal Bahadur Shastri
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. — William Arthur Ward
Get Motivated Quotes
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt
Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered. — Colin Powell
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. — Jim Rohn
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up. — Joyce Meyer
When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder. — Dan Gable
Career Motivation Quotes
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it. — Abraham Lincoln
I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it. — Arthur L. Williams, Jr.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. — Mark Twain
In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this. — Rafael Nadal
The biggest cause of procrastination is not being excited by what you’re building towards. — Tom Bilyeu
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. — Sarah T. Bolton
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
I set my goals way higher than the achievable. And when I fail, I fail at a very high level. That's my process. It's really demented, but it actually works. When you are aiming really high and doing something new, you must be also prepared to fail, learn from your mistakes and begin with a new plan. More motivated than before. — James Cameron
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent. — Joe Strummer
The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals. — Samantha Riley
Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once. — Mark Victor Hansen
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. — Saul Bellow
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going. — Jim Jarmusch
Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results. — Mark Victor Hansen
Young people need to be inspired, told they can achieve anything they set their minds to. — Jim Stynes
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help. — Watts Humphrey
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
The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment. — T. Harv Eker
When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up. — Zig Ziglar
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals. — Booker T. Washington
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
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets. — Nido R Qubein
Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed. — Ted Koppel
The things you learn from sports - setting goals, being part of a team, confidence - that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's about being on time for practice, accepting challenges and being fearful of the elements. — Summer Sanders
Always begin with the end in mind. — Ellen Muth
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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