Top 200 Goal Quotes (2025 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: Focus Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

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

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Performance 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: Success Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Powerful Motivational Quotes

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

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Friday Inspirational Quotes

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

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

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

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

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

— Seneca the Younger

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life

10. “It’s not about the goal. It’s about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

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

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes

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

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Focus Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

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

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Quotes for Success

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: Motivational Work Quotes, Effort Quotes, Commitment 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

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Effort Quotes

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

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

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: Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Positive Motivational 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

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Business Quotes

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: Focus Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes, Mind Quotes

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Wealth Quotes, Helping Quotes

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

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Empowerment 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: Inspirational Business Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, 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

Also featured in: Motivational Monday Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

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

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Short Inspirational Quotes

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, Motivational Quotes for Work, Optimistic 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

Also featured in: Motivational Work Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

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

— Nido R. Qubein

Also featured in: Inspirational Business Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Willpower Quotes, Positive Work Quotes

31. “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: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

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

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Goal Setting Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Sunday Motivational Quotes

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: Short Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Quotes About Acting

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, Productivity Quotes

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

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Wealth Quotes, Financial Success Quotes

37. “The goal of all life is death.”

— Sigmund Freud

Also featured in: Sad Quotes

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: Life Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Experience Quotes

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

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Quotes About Children, School Quotes

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

42. “Clear, written goals have a wonderful effect on your thinking. They motivate you and galvanize you into action. They stimulate your creativity, release your energy, and help you to overcome procrastination as much as any other factor.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Impact Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes

43. “Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Business Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

44. “Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Impact Quotes

45. “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

46. “Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!”

— Grant Cardone

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Quotes for Success, Wealth Quotes, Sales Motivational Quotes

47. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes

48. “Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Empowering Quotes, Winning Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes

49. “To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you’re going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Life Quotes

50. “Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes