Top 200 Goal Setting Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

— Brian Tracy

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2. “The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it.”

— Brian Tracy

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3. “Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.”

— Brian Tracy

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4. “A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary.”

— Brian Tracy

5. “You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.”

— Les Brown

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6. “Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.”

— Brian Tracy

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7. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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8. “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is how great spiritual giants are produced.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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9. “Don’t make excuses for why you can’t get it done. Focus on all the reasons why you must make it happen.”

— Ralph Marston

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10. “Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”

— Napoleon Hill

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11. “Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.”

— Robert Collier

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12. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”

— Henry Ford

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13. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”

— Brian Tracy

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14. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

— Zig Ziglar

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15. “To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.”

— Abdul Kalam

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16. “When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.”

— Zig Ziglar

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17. “Plan your work and work your plan.”

— Napoleon Hill

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18. “If you want something, go get it. Period.”

— Chris Gardner

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19. “If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.”

— Tony Robbins

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20. “Have goals so big your problems pale in comparison.”

— Grant Cardone

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21. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

— Jim Rohn

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22. “Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.”

— Brian Tracy

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23. “A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”

— Harvey MacKay

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24. “Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to “make things” work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.”

— Grant Cardone

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25. “Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.”

— Zig Ziglar

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26. “When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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27. “Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself is, ‘Are all the disciplines that I’m currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?’”

— Jim Rohn

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28. “When you visualize, then you materialize.”

— Denis Waitley

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29. “I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.”

— Grant Cardone

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30. “What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!”

— Napoleon Hill

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31. “Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve.”

— Tony Robbins

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32. “Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life’s purpose.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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33. “Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

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34. “As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.”

— Les Brown

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35. “Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.”

— Les Brown

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36. “NO MORE. No more excuses. No more: “I’ll start tomorrow.” No more: “Just this once.” No more accepting the shortfalls of my own will. No more taking the easy road. No more bowing down to whatever unhealthy or unproductive thoughts float through my mind.”

— Jocko Willink

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37. “Don’t let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.”

— Zig Ziglar

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38. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.”

— Napoleon Hill

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39. “Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.”

— Brian Tracy

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40. “Will what I am about to do bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?”

— Zig Ziglar

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41. “Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.”

— Jack Canfield

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42. “There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”

— Napoleon Hill

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43. “All good performance starts with clear goals.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

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44. “I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.”

— Napoleon Hill

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45. “If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.”

— Zig Ziglar

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46. “A dream becomes a goal the moment you write it down. A goal becomes a plan the moment you break it down into doable steps. A plan becomes a reality only when you take action.”

— Marshall Sylver

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47. “There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”

— Tony Robbins

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48. “Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true.”

— Tony Robbins

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49. “The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.”

— Og Mandino

50. “Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.”

— Zig Ziglar

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