Goals And Achievement Quotes:

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting, Success Is Not Measured

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Clever, Inspirational Goal Setting, Adjustment

By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

- Mark Victor Hansen

source: Mark Victor Hansen (1989). “Future diary”

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Hands, Inspirational Goal Setting, Inspire And Motivate

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

- Robert Foster Bennett

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Taken, Inspirational Achievement, Achievement And Success

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Succeeding In Life, Organic Architecture

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination, Life Determination, Motivational Achievement

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

- Bruce Lee

source: "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 121), 2000.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Determination, Martial Arts Inspirational, Inspirational Determination

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

- Jim Rohn

source: FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2017

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Spiritual Disciplines, Inspirational Goal Setting

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball, Motivation And Drive, Motivation Goal Setting

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

- Henry Ford

topic: Happiness, Work, Inspiration, Joy Happiness, Joy In Work

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

- Pearl S. Buck

topic: Motivational, Education, Time, Risking Your Life, Dreaming And Doing

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock

source: Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Daily Work, True Believer

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Money, Congratulations, Successful, Steady Progress, Greatest Achievement

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Running, Wall, Giving Up, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.

- Kurt Lewin

source: "Resolving social conflicts; selected papers on group dynamics" edited by Gertrude W. Lewin New York: Harper & Row, 1948, p. 133; as cited in "Schooling & Capitalism: A Sociological Reader" by Roger Dale, Madeleine MacDonald, Geoff Esland, (p. 111), 1976.

topic: Time, Successful, Goal, Successful Individuals, Goals And Achievement

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Leadership, Chosen Path, Reaching Goals

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Inspirational Goal Setting, Motivation Goal Setting, Life Goal

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Goal, Trivia, Loyal, Dreams And Goals, Kaizen

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them

- Michael Jordan

topic: Basketball, Trying, Achieve, Hurdling Obstacles, Inspirational Adversity

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Inspirational Achievement, Inspiring Presidential

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

- William James

topic: Running, Perseverance, Inspirational Sports, Marathon Runners, Marathon Running

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Motivational, Eye, Goal, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

- Edmund Hillary

source: "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational High School Graduation

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

- Stephen Brennan

topic: Business, Goal, Vehicle, Inspirational Goal Setting, Motivation And Drive

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Lying, Achievement, Achieve, Lifetime Achievement, Goal Achievement

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

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Happier Life, Just Want To Be Happy

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Success, Ambition, Goal, Inspirational Goal, Motivation Goal Setting

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Dream, Believe In Your Dreams

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

source: "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Achievement

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

- Anatole France

source: Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journey To Success, Inspiration And Motivation

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Football, Inspirational Winning

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

- William Jennings Bryan

source: William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Manifest Destiny, Future Success

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

- Beverly Sills

source: "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

topic: Positive, Shortcuts, Grad, Go Hard, Inspirational Graduation

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Commitment, Inspirational Determination

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Moving, Achieving Your Goals, Urgency

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about.

- Mark Victor Hansen

source: Mark Victor Hansen (1989). “Future diary”

topic: Destiny, Thinking, Goals Dreams, Inspirational Goal Setting, Motivational Goal

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Inspirational, Moving On, Success, Perseverance In Love, Goals And Achievement

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

- George Lucas

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Achieving Your Goals, Goal Achievement

Put your future in good hands. Your own.

- Mark Victor Hansen

topic: Hands, Your Future, Our Future, Inspiration And Motivation, Inspirational Goal Setting

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Motivational, Sports, Figures, Favorite Sports, Inspirational Football

The future you see is the future you get.

- Robert G. Allen

topic: Business, Dreaming Big And Goals, Goals And Achievement

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

- Benjamin E. Mays

topic: Lying, Goal, Mind, Inspirational Goal, Inspirational Weight Loss

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

- W. H. Murray

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Innovation Inspiration