Top 200 Goal Setting Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “What you aim at determines what you see.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

102. “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

103. “The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.”

— George Bernard Shaw

104. “Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.”

— Mia Hamm

105. “Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.”

— Bob Proctor

106. “He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.”

— James Allen

107. “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”

— Mario Andretti

108. “The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.”

— Bob Parsons

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

— Michael Jordan

110. “Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you’ll be surprised at where you might get to.”

— Chris Gardner

111. “The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.”

— Denis Waitley

112. “Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.”

— Virat Kohli

113. “If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.”

— Tony Robbins

114. “Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth.”

— Sylvester Stallone

115. “Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.”

— Brian Tracy

116. “In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.”

— Aliko Dangote

117. “Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.”

— W. Clement Stone

118. “Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter how badly things are going at the moment.”

— Brian Tracy

119. “Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor.”

— Bill Shankly

120. “When you visualize, then you materialize. If you’ve been there in the mind you’ll go there in the body.”

— Denis Waitley

121. “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

— Leon Joseph Suenens

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

— Zig Ziglar

123. “A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.”

— Zig Ziglar

124. “Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.”

— Brian Tracy

125. “The key to turning dreams into reality is action.”

— Jim Rohn

126. “Don’t let small thinking cut your life down to size. Think big, aim high, act bold. And see just how big you can blow up your life.”

— Gary W. Keller

127. “Direction determines destination.”

— Jim Rohn

128. “Try a little harder to be a little better.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

129. “The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.”

— Jim Rohn

130. “It’s our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.”

— Jim Carrey

131. “Don’t worry about getting it right. Just get it started.”

— Marie Forleo

132. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.”

— George Horace Lorimer

133. “We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

134. “Wake up with a plan of action, go to bed with satisfaction.”

— Greg Plitt

135. “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

136. “Build a dream and the dream will build you.”

— Robert H. Schuller

137. “The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.”

— Jim Rohn

138. “Success is built sequentially. It’s one thing at a time.”

— Gary W. Keller

139. “Dreams are made possible if you try.”

— Terry Fox

140. “The more you dream the more you achieve.”

— Michael Phelps

141. “Even the smallest achievements pave a way to great success.”

— Mary Kay Ash

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

— Greg Plitt

143. “If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!”

— D.L. Moody

144. “One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow.”

— Les Brown

145. “Big dreams turn into big things.”

— Meek Mill

146. “Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.”

— Brian Tracy

147. “Don’t start your day until you have it finished on paper first.”

— Jim Rohn

148. “There’s always a way. Where there’s a will there is a way. You have to believe.”

— Britney Spears

149. “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

150. “Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.”

— Jaggi Vasudev