Top 40 Goal Quotes (2023 Update)

1. “A goal without a plan is only a dream.”

— Brian Tracy

2. “Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Moving Quotes

3. “Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Focus Quotes

4. “If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline.”

— Lee Kuan Yew

Also featured in: Discipline Quotes, Quotes About Dreams

5. “Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Powerful Quotes

6. “Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.”

— John C. Maxwell

7. “Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals.”

— Robin S. Sharma

8. “Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Quotes About Trying

9. “No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.”

— Seneca the Younger

10. “Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.”

— Tony Robbins

11. “The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.”

— Dwayne Johnson

12. “When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.”

— Les Brown

13. “You can’t hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.”

— Zig Ziglar

14. “Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.”

— Yogi Berra

15. “A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Energy Quotes

16. “Make a wish with all your heart and chase every dream you have. Only you can reach your goals. No one else can achieve them for you.”

— Demi Lovato

17. “I’m a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can’t see any other way of accomplishing anything.”

— Michael Jordan

18. “Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Effort Quotes

19. “Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.”

— Napoleon Hill

20. “God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Desire Quotes

21. “If you can mentally see the end of the journey, then your body will physically find a way to achieve that goal.”

— Greg Plitt

Also featured in: Quotes About Body

22. “To be someone’s inspiration is the biggest goal in my life.”

— Demi Lovato

23. “Money is not the goal. Money has no value. The value comes from the dreams money helps achieve.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Helping Quotes

24. “Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.”

— Harvey MacKay

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes

25. “Get out of your own way. Often, we’re our own worst enemy when working towards our goals.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

26. “Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?”

— Brian Tracy

27. “Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Helping Quotes

28. “Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.”

— Stephen R. Covey

29. “My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.”

— Og Mandino

30. “Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Quotes About Skills

31. “When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.”

— Nido R. Qubein

32. “Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.”

— Denis Waitley

33. “One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.”

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Effort Quotes

34. “I’m not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.”

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: Distance Quotes

35. “Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.”

— Tim Ferriss

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Mind Quotes

36. “Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.”

— Warren Buffett

37. “The goal of all life is death.”

— Sigmund Freud

38. “Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.”

— Alan Watts

Also featured in: Quotes About World

39. “The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Quotes About Children, Quotes About Childhood

40. “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t.”

— John Piper

41. “Do more of what works.”

— Stay Focused

Also featured in: Focus Quotes