From inspirational quotes about goal-setting and ambition to motivational quotes about turning your wildest dreams into realities, these wise words and smart sayings will give you that extra push you need to help you make all your goals come true in 2023 and beyond. Print them out and hang them on your mirror for a daily dose of inspiration or share them with a like-minded friend. We promise you’ll be glad you did. Here are 150 of the best goals quotes that will encourage you to stay motivated and help you achieve success.
150 Best Goals Quotes
- “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” —Andrew Carnegie
- “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” —Earl Nightingale
- “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
- “I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” —Michael Phelps
- “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.” —Ted Turner
- “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
- “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” – Confucius
- “There’s nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.” – Paloma Faith
- “Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.” – LL Cool J
- “You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.” – Les Brown
- “Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.” – John Dewey
- “Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.” – Robert H. Schuller
- “Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.” – Venus Williams
- “Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.” – Ginni Rometti
- “It’s an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.” – Cesar Millan
- “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” – James Cameron
- “I am constantly re-evaluating my goals and trying to strike items from my to-do list that aren’t critical.” – Aisha Tyler
- “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
- “Where are the people who don’t have goals headed? Those 97 percent end up working for the three percent.” – Shiv Khera
- “I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.” – Nadia Comaneci
- “People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that’s what it takes to accomplish your goals.” – Curtis Jackson
- “My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.” – Kiana Tom
- “You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.” – Jerry West
- “It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals.”– Pat Summitt
- “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein
- “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”– Michael Korda
- “If you aim for nothing, you’ll hit it every time.” – Unknown
- “The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”– Michelangelo
- “I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.”– Rachel Carson
- “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”– Tony Robbins
- “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”– Brian Tracy
- “If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it.”– Jill Koenig
- “In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.”– Sid Caeser
- “You can always find a solution if you try hard enough.”– Lori Greiner
- “The going is the goal.”– Horace Kallen
- “A good goal is like a strenuous exercise — it makes you stretch.”– Mary Kay Ash
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.”– Mario Cuomo
- “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”– Henry David Thoreau
- “Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.” – Viktor Frankl
- “The great glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live with purpose.”– Michel de Montaigne
- “Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.”– Andy Andrews
- A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee
- “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”– Jim Rohn
- “If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan, but never the goal.”– Unknown
- “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”– Jim Rohn
- “To reach a port, we must sail — Sail, not tie at anchor — Sail, not drift.”– Franklin Roosevelt
- “Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”– Theodore Roosevelt
- “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.”– Elbert Hubbard
- “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”– John Wooden
- “You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
- “If we have a goal and a plan, and are willing to take risks and mistakes and work as a team, we can choose to do the hard thing.” — Scott Kelly
- “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.” - Jack Ma
- “We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” — Arianna Huffington
- “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” - Tina Fey
- “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.” - Elon Musk
- “A goal without a timeline is just a dream.” - Robert Herjavec
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” - Nelson Mandela
- “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston Churchill
- “You have to be able to get up and dust yourself off and always be going forward.” - Rita Moreno
- “Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand. Every minute needs to count.” - Gary Vaynerchuk
- “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb
- “Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “It’s better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb than at the top of the one you don’t.” –Stephen Kellogg
- “Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will NEVER be a perfect time to pursue your dreams and goals. ” – Unknown
- “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” – Napoleon Hill
- “Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing.” – William Shakespeare
- “Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.” – Aldous Huxley
- “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
- “The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.” – Richard Monckton Milnes
- “A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.” – Thomas Fuller
- “In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.” – Unknown
- “Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.”― David Joseph Schwartz
- “No desired achievement is gained without any goal setting.”― Wayne Chirisa
- “I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.”― Martha Stewart
- “The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.”― David Allen
- “The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the train.” – John Milton Lawrence
- “The only goals you don’t achieve in life are the goals you don’t set.” ― Matt Fox
- “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” — Steve Jobs
- “It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.” — Mark Cuban
- “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
- “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Remember why you started.” – Unknown
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “You have to believe it before you see it.” – Unknown
- “If you don’t have big dreams and goals, you’ll end up working for someone that does.” – Unknown
- “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffet
- “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.” – Unknown
- “Goals are dreams brought to life.” – Amy Leigh Mercree
- “Wish it. Plan it. Do it.” - Jaipal Singh
- “You know that one thing you’ve always dreamed about? Write it down. Then take the first step. Today.” – Petra Poje
- “One person may not, whereas another person will. Your job is to find a person who will help you reach your goal.” – Germany Kent
- “A birthday is a time to reflect on the year gone by, but to also set your goals for the upcoming year." Catherine Pulsifer
- “The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.” – Dalai Lama
- “Many of us carry baggage from the past that hinders our ability to fight for the things we want in life, our goals, our dreams.” – Les Brown
- “Motivation is what drives a person to move forward and put action towards making their goals happen.” - Brian Cagneey
- “Motivation is interwoven with the goals you make and the habits you form in order to achieve them.” — Matthew Lewis Browne
- “We must share our dreams with people who will see us working toward and accomplishing our goals. Be encouraged by people who say, “How about trying it this way?” ” – David DeNotaris
- “The best way to approach a goal is to first break it down into very small bite-size steps. Each one of these steps should lead logically to the next step to be completed in a linear order.” - Byron Pulsifer
- “The main thing to keep in mind is that there can be many sets of small goals involved in working up to your final and ultimate goal.” — Ben Johnson
- “Empowerment involves analyzing your own life and believing that you are able to reach realistic goals.” — Poppy Fingley
- “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
- “Goals can change from time to time but then remember to focus on your priorities.” — Roger Collmar
- “Goals produce focus. Without a goal, there is no reason to focus on anything. Think of a goal as a target.” —Bill Price
- “Without a goal, you will continue creating yourself in the manner you have been doing it so far. And obtaining the same expected results, more often, unconsciously.” — Helena Angel
- “While working on completing your goal, you may encounter possible setbacks. Instead of beating yourself up, look at them as opportunities to learn and grow.” —Kyle Nussen
- “The key to thriving with accomplishing any goal would be dependent on working with dedication, yet lots of people do not interpret just how important it really is!” — Sarfraz Sohail
- “Any unforeseen challenges that crop up are only there to test your resolve on your way to ultimate success in reaching your goal.” — Byron Pulsifer
- “Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passions only makes sense" — Josh Hinds
- “Goals are like a map. They help us determine where we want to end up, and give us personal direction on which to focus our energy.” — Catherine Pulsifer
- “By having big goals and pushing yourself towards them you will have a lot more energy because you know exactly what you’re doing and what you’re doing it for.” — Troy Foster
- “If you want to do something and you have a goal, do it, don’t wait, because your channel might change sometime soon - and quite unexpectedly.” — Sean Swarner
- “Productivity depends on executing important tasks in line with your goals.” — Romuald Andrade
- “If you want to achieve your goal, the strategy you are using need not be clever or original but it should bring results.” — Andrii Sedniev
- “You can accomplish whatever your mind can see!” — Catherine Pulsifer
- “Basically being in a team is an amalgamation of different things that have a common intention of meeting the assigned goal.” — Derek Stanzma
- “Without any goal, it’s as if you are only doing things in random.” — Ryan Cooper
- “Set goals and focus on completing one goal at a time.” —K. Collins
- “Once you know specifically what you’re aiming for, you’ll find that you can muster up enthusiasm for your goal more easily.” — AJ Winters
- “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson
- “Sometimes, I shake if I have to do something that I’ve never done before; maybe not noticeably, but inside. But I’ll do it, because I know it’s not an insurmountable task; I’ve done plenty of tasks in my life." – Martha Stewart
- “Envision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.” – Tony Hsieh
- “I know how it looks. But just start. Nothing is insurmountable.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda
- “There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.” – Pete Maravich
- “I’m competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don’t really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.” – Lucas Grabeel
- “As a professional athlete, a lot is going to be said about you—but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.” – LeBron James 127. “Remember that goals are not aspirations—they are not wishes that you want to have. They are things that you have to do.” —Robert Gardner
- “Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.” – Ralph Marston
- “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” – Earl Nightingale
- “The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort." – Michael Jordan
- “Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.” – Les Brown
- “You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.” – George S. Patton
- “A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” – Larry Bird
- “Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.” – Thurgood Marshall
- “Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.” – Russel Honore
- “Goals transform a random walk into a chase.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.” - Jim Rohn
- “Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.” – Eminem
- “Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition, he or she has overcome to reach his goals.” — Dorothy Height
- “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
- “I live off a motto that says, ‘yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery’. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I’ll be tomorrow, that’s where I’ll be.” – Vanilla Ice
- “The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.” – Melody Beattie
- “Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.” – Stephen Covey
- “No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.” – Jessica Savitch
- “To win big you sometimes have to risk big things.” – Bill Gates
- “Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.” – Diana Rossma
- “Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.” – Serena Williams
- “It’s important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.” – Yuichiro Miura
- “You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.” – RJ Mitte
- “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 Want more great quotes? Check out…50 Thinking of You Quotes150 Good Morning Quotes100 Wedding and Marriage Quotes50 Friday Quotes101 Anxiety Quotes
