Top 100 Goal Set Quotes
#1. Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.
Spencer W. Kimball
#2. Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.
Herb Brooks
#3. Don't Set Success as Your Goal. Set Goals which lead you to Success
Laksh Kishore
#4. Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.
Mia Hamm
#5. God's will for you is to make you more like Jesus. Christlikeness is your target, your goal, your vision, and the reason you were created. You are set apart to be like Jesus. That goal will take the rest of your life to accomplish." (Life Hacks, p.61)
Jon Morrison
#6. I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.
Tim Ferriss
#7. Anything that is within someone else's reach is also within yours. Set your goals no matter how impossible they may seem. Then focus on what is between you and that goal. And then, simply take out the obstacles as they come.
Liz Murray
#8. Set a goal when you're ready for it, make a plan, and stick with it.
Auliq Ice
#9. Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.
Drew Carey
#10. Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.
Suze Orman
#11. Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.
Brian Tracy
#12. Set a master goal for your running and for your life.
Gerry Lindgren
#13. If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.
Brian Tracy
#14. If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.
Benny Lewis
#16. While we are here we should set goals and achieve them, make the best of things, make others feel good about themselves, and be happy with what we are and what we are doing.
Janet Evans
#17. I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.
Suzanne Farrell
#18. The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.
Stephen Covey
#19. You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.
Brian Tracy
#20. Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends ... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
Adam Kluger
#21. If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.
Dale Carnegie
#22. Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess
Haile Selassie
#23. Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.
Sam Walton
#24. Set a goal that makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning.
Anonymous
#25. Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.
Behdad Sami
#26. Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.
George Gaylord Simpson
#27. Let's have a life with momentum and action. Set a goal for every day and every season.
Debasish Mridha
#28. Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.
Ted Koppel
#29. Do not waste time idling or thinking after you have set your goals
Miyamoto Musashi
#30. The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place
Denis Waitley
#31. Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.
Jim Rohn
#32. 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
#33. Well, the truth is, we hope that this book will do just that. I like to think of it as idiot encouragement. Take a chance in life. Set a goal for yourself and make it happen.
Patrick Schulte
#34. The reward for goal-setting is that as you achieve each goal, you feel in charge of your own destiny, with every moment taken up productively. Self-esteem increases and it becomes easier to remain motivated. So set those high goals and make clear plans for their execution.
Archibald Marwizi
#35. The set goal can release inner capacities and involve all human potential
Sunday Adelaja
#36. In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.
Benjamin Zander
#37. I'm not much of a planner. I set a goal and there really is nothing else ... no plan B.
Eddie Alvarez
#38. When I came back on the rink in 2012, I set a goal of wrapping up my career well rather than just winning medals. I'm not preparing for any special skills for Sochi because I don't feel like they are necessary.
Kim Yuna
#39. Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
Napoleon Hill
#40. When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.
Zig Ziglar
#41. There is no authentic goal you can set for yourself that can't be reached, no dream that can't be realized. It's just a matter of learning HOW to achieve what you want.
Jillian Michaels
#42. When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.
Burl Ives
#43. Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.
Yogi Berra
#44. We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.
Sergey Galitsky
#45. Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them.
Jim Rohn
#46. Trying is not enough. We have to go out and set goals and measure definitive progress so that four years from now we are in a better position to add new voters to our base of support.
Kevin Madden
#47. To get to a destination, you have to know the address. To find your purpose in life, you must set a goal, draw a map, and start the journey.
Debasish Mridha
#48. The key to life is to set goals and go after those goals, don't hold anything back.
Benson Henderson
#49. You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.
Brian Tracy
#50. Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.
Polly Toynbee
#51. The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment.
Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
So always strive for that.
Set your life around that goal.
Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#52. I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column.
Troy Glaus
#53. Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress.
Sri Chinmoy
#54. When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.
Tony DiCicco
#55. Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations....set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist's mission: to go beyond one's limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.
Paulo Coelho
#56. When I got cut from the varsity team as a sophomore in high school, I learned something. I knew I never wanted to feel that bad again. I never wanted to have that taste in my mouth, that hole in my stomach. So I set a goal of becoming a starter on the varsity.
Michael Jordan
#57. Set yourself a goal so difficult that death will seem like a welcome reprieve.
Chuck Palahniuk
#58. We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Jess Lair
#59. Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#60. The will, we have, is a very strong force. If we set our minds to get to a goal and focus intensely on it, it's hard for anything to get in the way.
Ufuoma Apoki
#61. Set your end goal ... the steps in between - is your path
Gino Norris
#62. I've come to realize that when people are not reaching their highest potential or whatever goals they set out for themselves, they're more inclined when they're going through pain. When they're going through a negative situation. They're more inclined to hear me than when they're doing well.
Eric Thomas
#63. When leadership set the goals by themselves, they are not goals, they are quotas.
Dave Ramsey
#64. It is exactly the unattainability, which differentiates a dream from a goal: Goals are reachable, when you fight for them. Dreams are not. Athletes shouldn't dream, but set goals for themselves and fight for them.
Fabian Cancellara
#65. The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?
Tom Hunter
#66. The compartmentalization of His voice to set times we commune with Him is a dangerous place to live. Is it our goal to spend the slightest amount of time possible with the Lord and still be in relationship with Him?
Eric Samuel Timm
#67. I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.
John Wooden
#68. Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!
Don Ward
#69. When I worked on my game, that's what I thought about. When it happened, I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.
Michael Jordan
#70. You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.
Jim Rohn
#71. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie
#72. It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.
Norm Coleman
#73. In life, nothing happens by accident. Set a goal, believe in it and go all-in to achieve it.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#74. There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#75. If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Yogi Berra
#76. We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American ... we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection.
William J. Clinton
#77. A pointless mind is a careful mind.when you're pointless, you don't know which one is your true goal. It takes time to process what is good and what's not. And when it is all set, it means success is achieved.
Christian Thogolith
#78. If I want to achieve the goals I've set, I've got to be in tip-top shape.
Michael Phelps
#79. Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.
Mark Victor Hansen
#80. I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.
Beyonce Knowles
#81. When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives
Ellen MacArthur
#82. Set small goals along the way and don't be overwhelmed by the process.
Kara Goucher
#83. The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.
Gerry Lindgren
#84. A person becomes a real individual when he has set and accurately defined his goal
Sunday Adelaja
#85. Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .
Eileen Caddy
#86. I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals
Lance Armstrong
#87. I pride myself on being consistent. So, yes, it definitely means something, even though I don't set goals.
Trevor Hoffman
#88. Focus on what it is that you want, set a realistic goal. Start setting goals that you feel you can accomplish. Don't try to go right to the top in one leap. Every time you accomplish a goal you develop the strength and wisdom to accomplish the next one.
Chuck Norris
#89. Whatever your passion in life is; always set a goal for yourself and never allow the guy next door to hold you back from achieving it".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#90. Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.
Harvey MacKay
#91. Those who don't set goals in life end up being controlled by those who do.
Paul Sloane
#92. I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.
Karlie Kloss
#93. If you set a goal of becoming an expert in your business, you would immediately start doing all kinds of things you don't do now.
Geoff Colvin
#94. Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.
Madonna Ciccone
#95. The goals you don't set reveal the dreams you don't do.
Robin Sharma
#96. No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.
Daniel Cormier
#97. To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.
J. Jack Halberstam
#98. A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently
Sunday Adelaja
#99. During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.
Francois Hollande
#100. I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.
Evan Longoria
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