The Ultimate Collection of 152 Quotes About Achieving Goals
Each and every one of us strives for success in our careers and personal lives. We want to make a positive impact on the world—whether that means working hard to be the best version of ourselves or reaching our biggest goals.
But it isn’t always easy; we often find our ambition hindered by doubt, fear, and discouragement. To help empower you to live up to your fullest potential and achieve your goals no matter what stands in your way, this ultimate collection of 152 motivational quotes will inspire you with wisdom from some of the most powerful thinkers in history!
Start reading now to align yourself with empowering beliefs that will empower you to take action toward achieving your goals and toward greatness!
The Best Inspirational Quotes About Achieving Goals
One great way to find inspiration is through quotes – words from other successful people that can inspire us and give us resilience in our daily lives. So, if your goals are lofty or manageable every day, these best quotes about achieving your goals and accomplishing success may be just what you need!
From wise advice to creative insight – let’s explore some of the top sayings about reaching goals and pushing past obstacles.
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”Tony Robbins
“Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.”
Bo Jackson
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
Jim Rohn
“A goal is a dream with a finish line.”
Duke Ellington
“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.”
Earl Nightingale
“Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.”
Washington Irving
“Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”
Vince Lombardi
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”
Albert Einstein
“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.”
Les Brown
“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
“Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.”
Elbert Hubbard
“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”
Zig Ziglar
“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Goals are dreams with deadlines.”
Diana Scharf Hunt
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
W. Clement Stone
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Zig Ziglar
“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
“You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.”
C.S. Lewis
“Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.”
Denis Waitley
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.”
Fitzhugh Dodson
You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.”Charles C. Noble
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.”
Les Brown
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”
Napoleon Hill
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”
Yogi Berra
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
Earl Nightingale
“The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline.”
Steve Smith
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
Mark Twain
“If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to achieve the goals of someone else.”
Brian Tracy
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
Henry Ford
“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”
Jordan Belfort
“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 make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”
J.M. Power
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”Benjamin E. Mays
“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”
Molière
“Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.”
Robert Schuller
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
Andrew Carnegie
“You can’t hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.”
Zig Ziglar
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
Robert Collier
“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
Orison Swett Marden
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Goals are like magnets. They’ll attract the things that make them come true.”
Tony Robbins
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
Vince Lombardi
“It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.”
Jillian Michaels
“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.”
Fitzhugh Dodson
“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
Malcolm X
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”
Bill Copeland
“You can’t achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.”
Shakira
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”
Helen Keller
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
Wayne Gretzky
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
Lao Tzu
“Don’t wait for opportunities, create them.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
Robert Kiyosaki
“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”
Bo Bennett
“Set goals, take action, achieve greatness.”
Topsy Gift
“If you want to change your life, change your goals.”
Unknown
“If you don’t have a goal, you’re just wandering around aimlessly.”
Mark Manson
“To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.”
Arthur Ashe
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”
Seth Godin
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
Bruce Lee
“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.”
Les Brown
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
Leonard Bernstein
“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
“Don’t let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
Babe Ruth
“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”
Brian Tracy
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
Orison Swett Marden
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
Sam Levenson
“A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot.”
Joe Vitale
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
Amelia Earhart
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain
“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”
Roy T. Bennett
“All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney
“You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.”
Steve Garvey
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
Dr. Seuss
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Nelson Mandela
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Christopher Columbus
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
Stephen Covey
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.”Og Mandino
“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”
Andre Gide
“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”
Muhammad Ali
“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.”
Thomas Carlyle
“You have to find out what’s right for you, so it’s trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.”
Teri Garr
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.”
Elbert Hubbard
“You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.”
George S. Patton
“The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.”
Cecil B. DeMille
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
Franz Kafka
“Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms, carry out your plan.”
Paul J. Meyer
“Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.”
Denis Waitley
“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.”
Chris Prentiss
“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.”
Sidney Howard
“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
Louis Pasteur
“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“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
“An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.”
Mary Kay Ash
“If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.”
Lou Holtz
“Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.”
Aristotle
“Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.”
John Dewey
“There’s nothing wrong with having your goals really high and trying to achieve them. That’s the fun part. You may come up short. I’ve come up short on a lot on my goals, but it’s always fun to try and achieve them.”
Tiger Woods
“By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.”
Christopher Columbus
“The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.”
Rick Hansen
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ursula K. Le Guin
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.”
Tom Hiddleston
It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.
Laini Taylor
“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
Seneca the Younger
“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”
Shauna Niequist
“I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.”
Martha Stewart
“To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.”
T.F. Hodge
“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.”
Shannon L. Alder
Cat: Where are you going?
Lewis Carroll
Alice: Which way should I go?
Cat: That depends on where you are going.
Alice: I don’t know.
Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.
“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
Dr Roopleen
“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
“Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.”
Stephen Richards
“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”
Shannon L. Alder
“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”
Vera Nazarian
“People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.”
Anthony Robbins
“Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.”
Gail Tsukiyama
“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
Robert Schuller
“The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.”
David O. McKay
“Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.”
Steve Maraboli
“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Leaders live by choice, not by accident.”
Mark Gorman
“Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if
Hermann Hesse
he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.”
“There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.”
Will Smith
“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”
Alexandre Dumas
“You have had a dream for so many years. Let today be the day you make a plan for it. Just think about how much more likely you are to hit your target when you finally aim at it.”
Steve Maraboli
“When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.”
Nido R Qubein
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
Louisa May Alcott
“My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.”
Jimi Hendrix
“After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.”
Aristotle Onassis
“Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.”
Donald Rumsfeld
“All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.”
W. Clement Stone
“My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.”
Steve Wozniak
“What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!”
Donald Trump
“Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.”
Brian Tracy
“A dream doesn’t become a goal until you write it down.”
Edwin Louis Cole
“Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed”
Brian Tracy
Quotes About Achieving Goals – Final Words
Achieving success requires hard work, a positive attitude, and a bit of inspiration. Thankfully, with this ultimate collection of 152 motivational quotes about achieving your goals from some of the most powerful thinkers in history, you can be reminded every day that your dreams are achievable and that you always have the strength to overcome any obstacle in your path.
So wherever you are on your journey toward greatness and personal growth, turn to these quotes about achieving goals for the much-needed encouragement to help you keep going. After all, the only way to achieve success is by putting in the effort—and with one inspirational quote at a time, that effort will be worth it!
I wish you the best, Fabian
