This month on the blog we are focusing on succeeding with goals, so what better way to start out than by offering 51 quotes for goal setting to get you inspired! Goals are the first step in changing dreams into reality, and a lot goes into success! This post is meant to encourage you, wherever you are on your journey.

Happiness Quotes for Goal Setting
āIf you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.ā ~Albert Einstein
āIn all things that you do, consider the end.ā ~Solon
āIn the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.ā ~Author Unknown
āIf youāre bored with life ā you donāt get up every morning with a burning desire to do things ā you donāt have enough goals.ā ~Lou Holtz
āIf you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.ā ~Andrew Carnegie
āIt must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesnāt lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.ā ~Benjamin E. Mays
āIn between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.ā ~Sid Caesar
āIn the end, people will judge you anyway, so donāt live our life impressing other ā live your life impressing yourself.ā ~Eunice Camacho Infante
āChallenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.ā ~Joshua Marine
āIt is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.ā ~Ernest Hemingway

Success Quotes for Goal Setting
āOne way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.ā ~Michael Korda
āIf you aim for nothing, you’ll hit it every time.ā ~Source unknown
āItās important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.ā ~Yuichiro Miura
āThe greater danger for most of us isnāt that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low, and we reach it.ā ~Michelangelo
“A goal properly set is halfway reached.ā ~Zig Ziglar
āSetting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.ā ~Tony Robbins
āGoals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.ā ~Brian Tracy
āWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.ā ~Henry David Thoreau
āEvery ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.ā ~Aldous Huxley
āPress forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.ā ~George Whitefield
āI have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.ā ~Thomas Edison
Fulfillment Quotes for Goal Setting
āYou should set goals beyond your reach, so you always have something to live for.ā ~Ted Turner
āThe trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.ā ~Bill Copeland
āI am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.ā ~Rachel Carson
āItās better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb than at the top of the one you donāt.ā ~Stephen Kellogg
āThe first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.ā ~Mark Caine
āIt is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.ā ~Edmund Hillary

Encouraging Quotes for Goal Setting
āReach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream, precedes the goal.ā ~Rabindranath Tagore
āYou can always find a solution if you try hard enough.ā ~Lori Greiner
āThe going is the goal.ā ~Horace Kallen
āA good goal is like a strenuous exercise ā it makes you stretch.ā ~Mary Kay Ash
āOne part at a time, one day at a time, we can accomplish any goal we set for ourselves.ā ~Karen Casey
āDonāt rush the process. Good things take time.ā ~Unknown
āA river cuts through a rock, not because of its power but its persistence.ā ~Unknown
āDonāt watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.ā ~Sam Levenson

Planning Quotes for Goal Setting
āIf a goal is worth having, itās worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it.ā ~Jill Koenig
āVision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.ā ~Japanese Proverb
āEnvision, create, and believe in your own universe, and the universe will form around you.ā ~Tony Hsieh
āA dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.ā ~Bo Bennett
āDreams donāt work unless you do.ā ~Unknown
āMany great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.ā ~Tim Blixseth
āYou cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.ā ~Jim Rohn
āA good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.ā ~Thomas Fuller
āGoals are dreams with deadlines.ā ~Diana Scharf

Action quotes for Goal Setting
āKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.ā ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
āThere are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.ā ~Mario Cuomo
āHowever brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of a great purpose.ā ~Francois de la Rochefoucauld
āIf the plan doesnāt work, change the plan, but never the goal.ā ~Unknown
āDecide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.ā ~Amelia Earhart
āA year from now you may wish you had started today.ā ~Karen Lamb
āIf you love life, donāt waste time, for time is what life is made up of.ā ~Bruce Lee
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So many great quotes there, and many I’ve never heard before. Thanks for sharing!
I’m so glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for your comment š