Top 30 Quotes on Goal Setting.

‘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.’ – Michangelo

It is that time of the year again where we are all making New Year’s resolutions, setting goals, wishes, re-awakening but a lot of us would not follow through because we are obsessed with the goal but not with the process, we write the goals but we do not decide and commit to following through, we do not set up the systems and routine that would make the goals achievable.

A Goal is a dream with a deadline, to achieve your goals this year; you need to set SMART Goals. Ask yourself, are my goals Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time bound.

Here are some great quotes on Goals:

• “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
• “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” —Earl Nightingale
• “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” —Bill Copeland
• “If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.” –Lou Holtz
• “If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” –Lawrence J. Peter

• “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”– Albert Einstein
• “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”– Ted Turner
• “A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” –Bruce Lee
• “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.” –Zig Ziglar
• “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

• “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
• “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.“ – Michangelo
• “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.”– Andrew Carnegie
• “If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it.”– Jill Koenig
• “A good goal is like a strenuous exercise — it makes you stretch.”– Mary Kay Ash

• “It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.” -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• “Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.” – Mark Twain
• “Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” – J.C. Penney
• “The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.” — Og Mandino
• “A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.”– Thomas Fuller

• “The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.” – Kahlil Gibran
•  “He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.” – Seneca
• “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
• “To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift.” – Franklin Roosevelt
• “The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.”― David Allen

• “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”– Booker T. Washington
• “The only goals you don’t achieve in life are the goals you don’t set.” –  Matt Fox
• “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.“– Tony Robbins
• “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.“– Steve Jobs
• “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.“– Jordan Belfort

All the best in your quest to get better. Don’t Settle: Live with Passion.