Motivation & Success: Goal Setting Quotes

Explore thoughtful quotes that illuminate how clear goals shape action, sharpen focus, and build momentum. These selections highlight planning, prioritization, and measuring progress without losing sight of purpose. Use them to reflect on discipline, resilience, and accountability, and to celebrate small milestones on the way to larger outcomes. Find steady encouragement to set realistic targets, align habits with intent, and keep moving forward.

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"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

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"Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"Failing to plan is planning to fail"

Alan Lakein, Businessman

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"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, Artist

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"Dreams are free. Goals have a cost. While you can daydream for free, goals don't come without a price. Time, effort, sacrifice, and sweat. How will you pay for your goals?"

Usain Bolt, Athlete

"Not failure, but low aim, is crime"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

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"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want"

Ben Stein, Actor

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

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"If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?"

Oscar Hammerstein, Writer

"A good system shortens the road to the goal"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

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"Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

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"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now"

Alan Lakein, Businessman

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"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"If you do not know where you want to go, it doesn't matter which path you take"

Lewis Carroll, Author

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"A goal is a dream with a deadline"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

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"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, Artist

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"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

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"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal"

Magnus Carlsen

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"Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one"

Ralph Ransom, Artist

"A goal without a plan is just a wish"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else"

Laurence J. Peter, Writer

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"In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

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"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another"

John Dewey, Philosopher

"There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A"

Will Smith, Actor

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"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

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"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

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"In all planing you make a list and you set priorities"

Alan Lakein, Businessman

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"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it"

Mack R. Douglas, Businessman

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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"We aim above the mark to hit the mark"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

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"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it"

Paulo Coelho, Novelist

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"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

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"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work"

H. L. Hunt, Businessman

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