Goals And Life Quotes:

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

- Jim Jarmusch

source: "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

topic: Lost, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel, Good Thoughts

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

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

- Bo Jackson

source: Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Inspirational Coach, Inspirational Football Coach

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Inspirational, Adventure, Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting, Motivation Goal Setting

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

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Where You Are, Standing, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel

Always begin with the end in mind.

- Ellen Muth

topic: Goal, Mind, Personal Vision, Put First Things First, Inspirational Achievement

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

- Brian Tracy

source: Roger A. Caras (1982). “A Celebration of Dogs”, Crown

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Matter, Inspirational Goal Setting, Motivational Goal

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

- Epictetus

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Goal, Repetitive

Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Goal, Goals And Life

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

- Seneca the Younger

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivation, Men, Inspirational Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

- George Eliot

topic: Successful, Goal, Be Who You Are, Meant To Be Alone, Achieving Your Goals

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

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.

- Sarah T. Bolton

topic: Motivational, Work, Victory, Motivation Goal Setting, Victory And Success

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Life Philosophy, Inspirational Goal Setting

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Inspirational, Success, Running, Man Of My Dreams, Mission And Vision

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Goal Setting, Life Goal

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

- Anita DeFrantz

topic: Success, Sight, Goal, Dreams And Goals, Goals And Life

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Success, Military, Positive Work, Achieving Your Goals

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

- Og Mandino

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Goal, Motivation Goal Setting, Tedious

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

source: Rick Hansen, Joan Laub (1994). “Going the distance: 7 steps to personal change”

topic: Goal, Challenges, Impossible, Inspirational Goal, Motivation Goal Setting

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Work, People, Goal, Inspirational Passion, Passion For Work

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

- George Eliot

topic: Successful, Goal, Too Late, Inspirational Goal, Meant To Be Alone

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Business, Military, Values And Goals, Accomplish Your Goals

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

- Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

- Jim Rohn

topic: Goal, Self Help, Reason, Achieving Your Goals, Goals And Life

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

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

- Michelangelo

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Aspire, Inspirational Goal Setting

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

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

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams, Humpty Dumpty, Management Motivation

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Self Esteem, Greatness, Self Respect, Building Things, Money Motivation

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

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

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

- Louis Pasteur

source: "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

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

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Management Motivation

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Life Wisdom, Perserverance

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Goal, Being Bored

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Life, Business, Specific Goals, Motivation Goal Setting

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Success, Business, Moving, Written Goals, Goals And Ambitions

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Loss, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Faith, Passion, Inspirational Passion, Strangest Secret

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

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