Goal Setting Quotes

Ever thought how would a ship without rudder survive in the stormy sea? Isn’t a shipwreck inevitable? It is the same with our lives. Leading an aim-less life can lead to intense loss and suffering. It is important, therefore, for each of us to set up a goal in life, to rise every morning with the enthusiasm to strive towards our chosen task and march upwards and onwards. Our energies should be conjured up to achieve what we have thought for ourselves. This article contains a list of goal-setting quotations for you to be inspired and get started to make your life full of purpose and meaning.

Goal Setting Quotations & Sayings

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. - Earl Nightingale
A goal properly set is halfway reached. - Abraham Lincoln
For me, goals are my road map to the life I want. They have helped me accomplish things I once thought were impossible. - Catherine Pulsifer
Goal setting is the core of existence that defines life. - Joanne Bonomi
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
Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything. - Scott Reed
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. - Helmut Schmidt
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life. - Harvey Mackay
Focus on your potential instead of your limitations. - Alan Loy McGinnis
One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams. - Jim Rohn
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. - Dale Carnegie
There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going. - Mark Caine
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. - Bill Copeland
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. - Benjamin Mays
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. - Vincent van Gogh
You can't reach your goals without occasionally taking some long shots. – Anonymous
In achieving your goals, you may run into roadblocks. Don't let that stop you, go around, over, or under. If you are committed to your goal you will find a way. - Catherine Pulsifier
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. - Zig Zigler
Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer. - Leo F. Buscaglia
The reason so few people are successful is because no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill. - W. Clement Stone
Nothing happens without desire - not in sports, not in business, not in life. - Colin Dunbar
A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on. - Tom Morris
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. - Henry Ford

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