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Inspirational Quotes About Goal Setting

Madhura Pandit
Setting a goal is a prerequisite for achieving success. Here are some famous goal setting quotes that will surely inspire you.
Life can be meaningful only when there is a specific goal to attain or a target to reach. One can work hard to achieve it only when there is a specific and practical target set. Achieving a goal is no simple task. It requires a lot of dedication, determination, perseverance and hard work.
There are several famous quotes by successful and notable people in the world that speak of the importance of goal setting in an individual's life. Here are some famous quotes about setting and achieving goals for kids, students and adults.

Inspirational Goal Setting Quotes

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do!
~ Norman Vincent Peale
There's nothing wrong with having your goals really high and trying to achieve them. That's the fun part. You may come up short. I've come up short on a lot on my goals, but it's always fun to try and achieve them.
~ Tiger Woods
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
~ Elbert Hubbard

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

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
~ Zig Ziglar

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.
~ Stuart Wilde

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
~ Anonymous
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
You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
~ Gary Ryan Blair

The four natural principles for success are: A clear goal, a definite plan, confidence, no fear of failure.
~ Robin Sieger
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
~ Harvey
The greater 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 hit it.
~ Michelangelo

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

To reach a port, we must sail; Sail, not tie at anchor; Sail, not drift.
~ Franklin Roosevelt
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

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
These were some popular quotes that will inspire you and help you get started. Lastly, there is one of the best goal quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith, that is worth memorizing:
There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.