Reaching Goals Quotes:

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Pushing On, Source Of Life

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

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

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

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

topic: Goal, Talent, Setting Goals, Inspirational Goal, Life Goal

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 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

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

- Benjamin E. Mays

topic: Stars, Disgrace, Reaching For The Stars, Reach For Your Dreams, Reaching Goals

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

- Benjamin E. Mays

topic: Dream, Stars, Lying, Reaching For The Stars, Reach For Your Dreams

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

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting, Positive Change, Inspirational Attitude

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

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

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

- Fitzhugh Dodson

topic: Inspirational, Success, Greatness, Life Goal, Career Goals

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

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

- W. Clement Stone

topic: Inspirational, Ideas, Goal, Reaching Goals, Reaching Your Goals

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

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

- Ted Turner

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Goal, Inspirational Goal, New Goal

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Goal, Desire To Achieve, Reaching Goals

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Inspirational, Educational, Failure, Martial Artist, Martial Arts Inspirational

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

- Arnold J. Toynbee

source: Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Believe, Achieving Your Goals, Reaching 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

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

- Robert Browning

source: "Andrea del Sarto" l. 97 (1855)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspirational Goal Setting, Reaching For The Stars

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

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

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

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

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

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Courage To Change

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

- Zig Ziglar

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

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Inspiring, Success, Time, Management Motivation, Managing Time

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

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

- Booker T. Washington

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Motivational Goal, Reaching Goals

The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Goal, Able, Principles, Reaching Goals

The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Goal, Mind Your Own Business, Reaching, Reaching Goals

Being scared is normal. My technique for erasing it is facing it. Be afraid and brave. Be nervous and courageous. The first few minutes of being scared is your test to see if you're really serious about reaching a goal. Push through anxiety and come out victorious. Fear is just a test. Honor the feeling. Know it's there. Know it's temporary. Face it to erase it.

- Chrisette Michele

topic: Goal, Brave, Anxiety, Reaching Goals

It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.

- Viola Spolin

source: Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.12, Northwestern University Press

topic: Goal, Effort, Losing, Daily Activities, Losing Everything

My definition of success is to be happy in what you like to do best. It's not a monetary value; it's an internal value in itself. If you're happy from the inside-out, thats what is important. Success comes as a day to day value or reaching a goal that you have, and you've got to prepare yourself for what's to come when success is there.

- DeMarcus Ware

topic: Goal, Important, Definitions, Monetary Value, Definition Of Success

You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon reaching a goal, to be confident, self-accepting, rooted like an oak tree in your being.

- Geneen Roth

topic: Self, Goal, Tree, Oak Tree, Reaching Goals

We all like to look forward to things. Incentivize yourself with a reward—a massage, dinner with a friend, a night watching your favorite show, a yoga class on Saturday morning. Visualizing a reward at the end of the to-do tunnel may help with reaching goals/completing tasks.

- Samantha Ettus

topic: Morning, Yoga, Night, Reaching Goals, Saturday Morning

Politics is the art of reaching a goal that benefits all citizens of a nation.

- Khem Veasna

topic: Art, Goal, Citizens, Reaching Goals

We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community,

- Joe Lieberman

topic: Iraq, Goal, Community, Milestone, Reaching Goals

Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Believe, Goal, Achieve, Reaching Goals

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Running, Character, Goal, Reaching Goals, Art Of Writing