Reaching Your Goals Quotes:

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

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 can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Grad, Imagine That

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

- Zig Ziglar

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

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

- Jerry Rice

source: "Getting Earnest With Movement". Noisey Interveiw, noisey.vice.com.

topic: Athlete, Today, Tomorrow, Inspirational Athlete, Inspirational Football Coach

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

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

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

- George Shinn

topic: Loss, Men, Self, Cooperation And Teamwork, Reaching Your Goals

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

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 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

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

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

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

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

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

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

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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging, Forward In Life, Math Education

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

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

- Lewis Carroll

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

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Luck, Harder, Best Success, Daily Work

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

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Path, Bikers, May, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets.

- Nido R Qubein

topic: Life, Motivational, Success, Reaching Your Goals, Focus And Concentration

It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world

- Og Mandino

topic: Goal, World, This World, Concentrating, Specialty

Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Positive, Dream, Law Of Attraction, Grad, Imagine That

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

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

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

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

- James Russell Lowell

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

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

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

- Lance Armstrong

source: "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Love Pain, Sports Mental Toughness

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

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

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

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

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