Top 200 Goal Setting Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them you immediately begin to create momentum.”

— Tony Robbins

52. “Set stretch goals. Don’t ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch is to reach for more than you think is possible. Don’t sell yourself short by thinking that you’ll fail.”

— Jack Welch

53. “If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.”

— Jack Ma

54. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

— Louis Pasteur

55. “If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal.”

— Biz Stone

56. “You cannot make progress without making decisions.”

— Jim Rohn

57. “A goal without a deadline is just a dream.”

— Robert Herjavec

58. “Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.”

— Nastia Liukin

59. “The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you’ll find the rest of the journey much easier.”

— Simon Sinek

60. “Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want.”

— T. Harv Eker

61. “Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.”

— Brian Tracy

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

— Napoleon Hill

63. “Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.”

— Ray Dalio

64. “VISUALIZE!!! Rehearse your future.”

— Rhonda Byrne

65. “Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”

— John F. Kennedy

66. “A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot.”

— Joe Vitale

67. “Start with the end in mind. If you want to be a millionaire, talk like one, act like one, work like one.”

— Bob Proctor

68. “If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.”

— Jim Rohn

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

— Les Brown

70. “If you aim higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you dreamed.”

— Richard Branson

71. “We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.”

— Tony Robbins

72. “Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

— Omar N. Bradley

73. “In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.”

— Henry David Thoreau

74. “Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

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

— Tony Robbins

76. “Most people don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan.”

— John J. Beckley

77. “The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

78. “Chase your dreams. Don’t wait til the dreams come true.”

— Greyson Chance

79. “Never hope for it more than you work for it.”

— Rita Mae Brown

80. “You can’t have a plan for your day, ’til you have a plan for your life.”

— Tony Robbins

81. “People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.”

— Elon Musk

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

— Zig Ziglar

83. “Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal.”

— Rick Ross

84. “The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.”

— Michael Josephson

85. “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

86. “Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”

— Zig Ziglar

87. “The how will show up after the commitment to the what.”

— Tony Robbins

88. “Have a vision. Be demanding.”

— Colin Powell

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

— Les Brown

90. “You design the life you want to have.”

— T. Harv Eker

91. “We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.”

— Robert Breault

92. “A goal without an action plan is a daydream.”

— Nathaniel Branden

93. “I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.”

— Jordan Belfort

94. “Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”

— Pat Riley

95. “A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.”

— Greg Reid

96. “A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up – and succeed.”

— Abdul Kalam

97. “Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.”

— Swami Vivekananda

98. “Success doesn’t happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don’t look back.”

— Erin Andrews

99. “When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.”

— Eric Thomas

100. “If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.”

— Cory Booker