It is easy to set goals on a piece of paper but much harder to follow them in your daily routine. The dynamics of life is such that it is not easy to remain constant and be perfect on a day to day basis. After 2-3 setback to follow your routine, the enthusiasm wears down and you feel like dropping out the whole idea of goal setting. More so, you begin to feel that your goals are next to impossible in terms of achieving them. For such times, you need someone to inspire and motivate you so that you stand again and continue your journey. We have consolidated a list of highly Inspirational Goal Achievement Quotes for you from the thought leaders of their times.
Do print them or write them out on a sticky note to keep the motivational juice running……. Put it somewhere most accessible to you…..
So here are the highly recommended ones:
1. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
― Albert Einstein
2. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
― Bruce Lee
3. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
― Karen Lamb
4. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”
― Booker T. Washington
5. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
― Steve Jobs
6. “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
― Henry David Thoreau
7. “The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.”
― Richard Bach
8. “A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.”
― Ayn Rand
9. “When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
― Elon Musk
10. “You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.”
― C.S. Lewis
11. “Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.”
― Roy Bennett
12. “Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.”
― David J. Schwartz
13. “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment”
― Oprah Winfrey
14. “It’s not so much what you accomplish. But what’s more important is how far you’ve come to accomplish what you have. Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work.”
― Therone Shellman
15. “The best way to maximize your time is by not wasting time. This requires planning and having an awareness of how you spend your time throughout the day.”
― Tasha Hoggatt
16. “An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
17. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti
18. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”
― Yogi Berra
19. “Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.”
― Stephen Richards
20. “The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul.”
― David O. McKay
21. “People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.”
― Anthony Robbins
22. “There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.”
― Will Smith
23. “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”
― Brian Tracy
24. “Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.”
― Liz Smith
25. “Start with big dreams and make life worth living.”
― Stephen Richards
26. “Know you will win and you will win!”
― Stephen Richards
27. “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
―Confucius
28. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
― Oprah Winfrey
29. “The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.”
― Wade Davis
30. “You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.”
― Zig Ziglar
31. “Where you are is merely a point along the path to where you are going.”
― Tony Cleaver
32. “Throwing yourself into the purse of a dream is the biggest adventure you can take on.”
― Charlotte Eriksson
33. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”
― Venus Williams
34. “The More Important Your Cheese Is To You The More You Want To Hold On To It.”
― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese?
35. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
36. “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
37. “Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
38. “If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.”
― Coco Chanel
39. “Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
40. “know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.”
― Nora Roberts, Morrigan’s Cross