83 Goal Setting Quotes That Push You To Take Actions
Setting goals is more than writing a list.
It’s choosing the direction you want your life to move in.
The process can feel overwhelming but clarity comes when you take one step at a time.
These goal setting quotes remind you that progress is built through intention consistency and belief in yourself.
Motivational goal setting quotes
“Goals transform a random walk into a chase.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” — Tony Robbins
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.” — Napoleon Hill
“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” — Benjamin E. Mays
“If you set a crazy, ambitious goal and miss it, you’ll still achieve something remarkable.” — John Doerr
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” — Jim Rohn
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” — Earl Nightingale
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” — Earl Nightingale
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney
“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
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” — Andrew Carnegie
“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” — Zig Ziglar
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden
“Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.” — Steve Jobs
“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” — Fitzhugh Dodson
“I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” — Michael Phelps
“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” — George Whitefield
“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” — Larry Bird
“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.” — David Joseph Schwartz
“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” — Michael Korda
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.” — Les Brown
“A goal properly set is halfway reached.” — Zig Ziglar
“Goals are dreams with deadlines.” — Diana Scharf Hunt
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” — Helen Keller
“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.” — Bo Bennett
“In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.” — Sid Caesar
“Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal.” — Bear Bryant
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” — Bruce Lee
“Action without planning is the cause of all failure. Planning without action is the cause of no success.” — Brian Tracy
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein
“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.” — Wayne Gretzky
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-improvement goal setting quotes
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” — Ernest Hemingway
“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” — Oprah Winfrey
“Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. It is the key to all fulfillment and achievement.” — Paul J. Meyer
“Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.” — Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.” — Denis Waitley
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“It is never too late to be who you might have been.” — George Eliot
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass
“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.” — Confucius
“A good goal is like a strenuous exercise — it makes you stretch.” — Mary Kay Ash
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Will Durant
“Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.” — Robin Sharma
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” — Maya Angelou
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth.” — Abraham Maslow
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” — Albert Einstein
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” — Michelangelo
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” — Malcolm X
“Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.” — Viktor Frankl
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” — Thomas Edison
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” — Viktor E. Frankl
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” — Albert Einstein
“Time equals life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.” — Alan Lakein
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” — Sylvia Plath
“Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievement gained slowly over time.” — John C. Maxwell
“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.” — John C. Maxwell
“Motivation gets you going. Habit keeps you growing.” — John C. Maxwell
“Many people fail in life simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.” — Elbert Hubbard
“Focus on your goals, not your fear.” — Roy T. Bennett
“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the present.” — Denis Waitley
“Your life changes the moment you make a new, consistent and committed decision.” — Tony Robbins
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain
“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” — Confucius
“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.” — N. R. Narayana Murthy
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” — Maya Angelou
“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.” — Dale Carnegie
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.” — Napoleon Hill
