150 Small Goals Quotes

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Famous Small Goals Quotes

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

Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it. — Emil Zatopek

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. — Saul Bellow

Establishing achievable, small, daily goals to build self-trust and discipline forms a foundation for consistency and success. — Gary Brecka

It is important to recognize the small successes. — Rafael Nadal

Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments. — Teresa Amabile

Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better. — Vincent Van Gogh

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. - Michael Korda

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. — Michael Korda

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there. — John H. Johnson

Limit yourself to fewer goals, and you’ll achieve more. — Leo Babauta

Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once. — Mark Victor Hansen

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine — Rick Pitino

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

Goals help you channel your energy into action. - Les Brown

Goals help you channel your energy into action. — Les Brown

Short Small Goals Quotes

  • My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals — Brad Stevens
  • Set your goals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you. — Unknown
  • A goal properly set is halfway reached. — Zig Ziglar
  • We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles — Jim Rohn
  • Most growth happens as a result of many small steps. The key is to keep taking them. — Dan Sullivan
  • A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle. — Zig Ziglar
  • It is the small steps which bring you satisfaction at the end of the day. — Rafael Nadal
  • Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself. — Tal Ben-Shahar
  • What keeps me going is goals. — Muhammad Ali
  • Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. — Brian Tracy

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The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

Set Small Goals Quotes

Dream big, but take consistent action towards your goals. It’s the small steps that lead to big achievements. — Steven Bartlett

The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it. — Kristi Yamaguchi

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I have a suggestion: When a temple is conveniently nearby, small things may interrupt your plans to go to the temple. Set specific goals, considering your circumstances, of when you can and will participate in temple ordinances. Then do not allow anything to interfere with that plan. — Richard G. Scott

I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away. — Claudia Schiffer

Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference. — Cheryl Richardson

I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other. — Alex Honnold

Having a CORE main focus is the key to being able to stay determined. Most people only set small goals and when they accomplish them... it's hard to stay on track as they are not trying to achieve anything else. — Scott Herman

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows. — Sam Altman

The world is always changed by people who don't listen to conventional wisdom. I think we often set our goals too small and try to accomplish them too quickly. — Rick Warren

Achieving Small Goals Quotes

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. - Harriet Tubman

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. — Harriet Tubman

Whatever you do, be it small, big; have a goal and believe in yourself. — Markiplier

There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable. — Ellen Langer

You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan, focus, work hard and be very determined to achieve your goals. — Henry Sy

Sometimes small setbacks are just blessings in disguise. They enhance your determination and whole-hearted dedication to achieving your goals. — Robert Cheeke

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans. — David J. Schwartz

Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts. — Brian Tracy

Your small goals are clear and you understand the actions and know the path you need to take to reach these goals. In your mind, they're achievable and you know it's just a matter of time. — Jean Charest

Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier -- certainly no more difficult -- than small ideas and small plans. — Dr. David Schwartz

No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training. — Taiichi Ohno

What Are Your Goals Quotes

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

Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal. — Ayrton Senna

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals. - Brian Tracy

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals. — Brian Tracy

If you want to become a millionaire fast, do this; Determine what you are willing to sacrifice on the altar of your goals. Then sacrifice them. This will give you all the room to double down on one thing. — Alex Hormozi

The dreams that you hold for your future are what you dream about at night. They’re always at the back of your mind. They’re what your heart desires. They keep you going. Accept reality and have a backup plan, but always follow your dreams no matter what. — Miley Cyrus

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. — Les Brown

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals. — Brian Tracy

Limits are possibilities. ... Formal restrictions, contrary to what you might think, free you up by allowing you to concentrate on purer ideas. ... You can be crippled by too many choices, especially if you don't know what your goals are. — Chip Kidd

It doesn't matter where you came from, it doesn't matter how poor you are, it doesn't matter where your family was. It all doesn't matter. You can achieve anything if you have really clear goals and if you work really hard to learn what you need to learn. — Brian Tracy

Set a goal and make a commitment to meet that goal. Do the best you can, but never forget your roots, never forget where you came from. After you have succeeded, look back and see if there are others that you might help to achieve what you have accomplished. — Larry Holmes

Different Goals Quotes

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

If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love. — Muhammad Ali

There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection. — Georges St-Pierre

There's a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don't want to live, you're really just empty. That's the point I was at before I was able to make. — Marilyn Manson

If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated. — Glennon Melton

Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon. — Russell Wilson

I want to be able to look back someday and say, "I did make a difference." Whether is was to open the minds of people to think that a woman can do a good job, or whether it's the fact that so many kids out there think that they could be like me. — Antonia Novello

The goal is not to fit in. If anything, it’s to amplify the differences, what doesn’t fit, the special characteristics unique to how you see the world. Instead of sounding like others, value your own voice. Develop it. — Rick Rubin

With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude. — Shane Warne

What works for someone else may not work for you. We all have different goals, incomes, and work ethics. Focus on yourself and create an investing system that works for you. — Jaspreet Singh

Clear Goals Quotes

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests. — David Duke

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning. — T. B. Joshua

From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures. — Adi Shankara

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

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett

Disciplined runners consistently clear their heads and focus fully on the journey ahead.. .because their passion and zeal for the goal supersedes the strain. The goal beckons them onward. Passion doesn't negate weariness; it just resolves to press beyond it. — Priscilla Shirer

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them. — Ken Blanchard

It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle. — Georgy Zhukov

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. — Robert A. Heinlein

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. — Aristotle

Setting Goals Quotes

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C. S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. — C. S. Lewis

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

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. — Andrew Carnegie

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

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. — Rabindranath Tagore

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. — Les Brown

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

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. - Bo Jackson

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. — Bo Jackson

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. — Tony Robbins

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past. — Joseph M. Juran

Small Steps Quotes

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong

We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off. — John Trudell

If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence. — Anton Chekhov

Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward. — Nichiren

True greatness...always requires regular, consistent, small, and sometimes ordinary and mundane steps over a long period of time. — Howard W. Hunter

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward. — Daisaku Ikeda

Epic things start with small humble steps. Pay respect to your beginnings. And if you're just starting out, know that it's OK to be sucky. To be small. To be messy and chaotic. Just make sure to never ever stop dreaming. — Vishen Lakhiani

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. — Louis Sachar

Short Term Goals Quotes

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

Most people know exactly what they need to do to reach their goals, but they’re not willing to make the short-term sacrifice for long-term achievement. — Alex Hormozi

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results. — Seth Godin

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it. — Joe Budden

I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care of on a daily basis. We're into short-term goals more than long-term goals. — Chip Kelly

Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success. — Mac Anderson

Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit - so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs. — Larry Page

Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal. — Curtis Martin

There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated. — Dara Torres

Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder. — Richard Benyo

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More Small Goals Quotes

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small. — Azim Premji

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages. — Bob Parsons

One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered. — Robert T. Bakker

Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things. — Confucius

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. — Adolphe Monod

No person has the right to rain on your dreams. — Marian Wright Edelman

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something. — Maxwell Maltz

My goal in life is to leave behind a safe and healthy world for our children. Before I leave this world, I want to be satisfied that at least I tried. I know I can make a difference, even if it might only be a small one. — Maisie Shiell

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big. — Scotty Bowman

When you cease to dream you cease to live. — Malcolm Forbes

remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism. — Lucille Ball

What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many of your activities. In a homogeneous culture, they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to achieve commonly held goals. But "common goals" are much harder to come by in larger, more heterogeneous populations. — Milton Friedman

Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. — Ann Landers

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. — Benjamin E. Mays

All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play. — Robert D. Maurer

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself. — Denis Waitley

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. — Hugh Mackay

I tape my list of goals, both large and small, above my bed so I can see them when I wake up. This holds me accountable. — Chris Solinsky

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses. — Russell Baker

If you're short on passion, it might be because your goals are too small or the fear is too big. — Seth Godin

Celebrate each accomplishment on your way to reaching your goal. Each challenge conquered whether large or small is a positive step to greatness. — Robert Cheeke

The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its properties, or interrelations between various objects. The goal of a proof is to make such a statement convincing by presenting a reasoning subdivided into small steps each of which is justified as an "elementary" convincing argument. — IU?. I. Manin

The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps. — Robert Genn

Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals. — Dave Ramsey

I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it. — Laura Kightlinger

Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said. — Mike Gordon

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports. — Stephen F. Lynch

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things? — Joyce Meyer

LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has usually been called the world is the male world. — Kathy Acker

We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals. — Surya Das

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