Top 200 Goal Setting Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “A winner never stops trying.”

— Tom Landry

152. “A good system shortens the road to the goal.”

— Orison Swett Marden

153. “Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.”

— Chris Grosser

154. “Know your limits, but never stop trying to break them.”

— Kyle Maynard

155. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

— Les Brown

156. “Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.”

— Mac Anderson

157. “What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.”

— Bob Proctor

158. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it.”

— Nora Roberts

159. “All you have to do is hold your goal before you and everything else will take care of itself.”

— Earl Nightingale

160. “Average is a failing plan! Average doesn’t work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.”

— Grant Cardone

161. “If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.”

— Zig Ziglar

162. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.”

— Zig Ziglar

163. “Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.”

— Walt Disney

164. “Remember, don’t try to build the greatest wall that’s ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.”

— Will Smith

165. “Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

166. “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”

— Peter F. Drucker

167. “Think, Act, Talk, and Conduct Yourself Like the Person You Want to Become.”

— John C. Maxwell

168. “If you put your mind to doing whatever it is you want to do, good things can happen.”

— Michael Jordan

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

— Denis Waitley

170. “It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.”

— Steve Maraboli

171. “If you mentally believe it will happen, your body is going to find a way to make it physically happen.”

— Greg Plitt

172. “No goal is too high if we climb with care and confidence.”

— S. Truett Cathy

173. “With hard work and focus, dreams do come true.”

— Jake Matthews

174. “The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive, but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.”

— Robin S. Sharma

175. “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

176. “Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.”

— Ellen G. White

177. “Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.”

— William Arthur Ward

178. “People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.”

— John C. Maxwell

179. “Anyone who ever accomplished anything did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it.”

— Bob Proctor

180. “A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.”

— Denis Waitley

181. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.”

— John C. Maxwell

182. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.”

— Earl Nightingale

183. “Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.”

— William Clark

184. “If you make it, great. If you miss it, what’s there to be afraid of?”

— Kobe Bryant

185. “You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.”

— Roger Federer

186. “What you do today can change all the tomorrows of your life.”

— Zig Ziglar

187. “If your habits don’t line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.”

— John C. Maxwell

188. “If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.”

— Denis Waitley

189. “The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite your passion.”

— Tony Robbins

190. “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”

— Michael Korda

191. “Without vision, you have no direction. Without direction, you have no purpose.”

— Steve Gilliland

192. “In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.”

— Tony Robbins

193. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

— Zig Ziglar

194. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

— Earl Nightingale

195. “The way to get ahead is to start now.”

— William Feather

196. “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

197. “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

— Ryan Blair

198. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”

— Albert Einstein

199. “Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.”

— Tony Hsieh

200. “A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

— Napoleon Hill