Motivation Goal Setting Quotes:

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

topic: Ambition, Clear Goals, Average, Motivation Goal Setting, Motivational Goal

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

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

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

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

- Howard Thurman

source: "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.

topic: Alive, Soul Life, Seeing Yourself, Inspirational Passion, Time And 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

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Attitude, Inspirational Coaching

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Motivational, Success, Congratulations, Inspirational Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

topic: Persistence, Men, World, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

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

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Motivational, Success, Congratulations, Inspirational Goal, Taking Risks

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

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Persistence, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

- Rabindranath Tagore

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Impossible Dream, Inspirational Dream

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouragement, Motivation Goal Setting, Achieving Goals

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

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Sports Leadership, Leaders Motivational

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Success, Basketball, Motivation Goal Setting, Life Goal

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

- Fitzhugh Dodson

topic: Motivational, Goals Dreams, Wish, Motivation Goal Setting, Motivational Goal

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Inspirational, Determination, Race, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

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

topic: Confidence, Determination, Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting, Motivation 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

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Confidence, Motivation Goal Setting, Definition Of Leadership

There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Joe Strummer

topic: Perseverance, Determination, Persistence, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

- Herodotus

topic: Giving Up, Suicidal, Goal, Motivation Goal Setting, Patience And Persistence

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

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

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

- Watts Humphrey

source: Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Maps, Helping, Where You Are, Management Motivation, Managing Time

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

topic: Greatness, People, Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting, Motivation Goal Setting

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

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Loss, Unsuccessful, Perserverance

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

- Les Brown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Goal, 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

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

- Jim Rohn

source: FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 06, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Best Success, My Own Life

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

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

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

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

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Half Way, Inspirational Goal Setting

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

- Earl Nightingale

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

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

- John Dewey

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Business, Inspirational Goal Setting, Starting Point

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

- Samuel Beckett

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