94 Inspirational Quotes About Accomplishing Your Goals

Achieving your goals isn’t easy. But with a little extra motivation, it’s easier. So let these motivational quotes about accomplishing your goals inspire you and give you the energy you need to get started!

I am a firm believer in the importance of setting goals. We all have dreams and wish that our lives were better and easier. But having dreams isn’t enough. They won’t change your life. It’s goals that have the power to do that. When you set big goals for yourself, you are taking responsibility for your life and changing the course of your future.

Great things can happen if you have the courage to believe in yourself and your ability to make things happen. So give yourself a chance and work for your goals. There will be tough times and sometimes you will question your goal. It’s natural. But the best way to reach your goal and change your life is to discard your doubts and just go for it. One step at a time.

Now, let’s get to the best quotes about accomplishing your goals!

94 Quotes about accomplishing your goals

1. “One part at a time, one day at a time, we can accomplish any goal we set for ourselves.”
– Karen Casey

2. “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

3. “Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.”
– Michelle Obama

4. “We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”
– Henry David Thoreau

5. “We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal, at best it is a wish, and wishes as little more than self-delusion.”
– Jim Rohn

6. “You must have one goal that, if you accomplish it, can do more to help you improve your life than any other single goal.”
– Brian Tracy

7. “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
– Steve Jobs

8. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
– Tony Robbins

9. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”
– James Cameron

10. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
– Karen Lamb

11. “You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.”
– Steve Garvey

12. “One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.”
– Albert Einstein

13. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
– Walt Disney

14. “The main thing to keep in mind is that there can be many sets of small goals involved in working up to your final and ultimate goal.”
– Ben Johnson

15. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Mark Twain

16. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

17. “No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.”
– Jessica Savitch

18. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela

19. “It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, continue to seek new goals.”
– Pat Summitt

20. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
– Zig Ziglar

21. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– Les Brown

22. “Successful people do things that the average person is not willing to do. They make sacrifices the average person is not willing to make. But the difference it makes is extraordinary.”
– Brian Tracy

23. “The question I ask myself like almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’”
– Mark Zuckerberg

24. “Most impossible goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite-size chunks, writing them down, believing them, and going full speed ahead as if they were routine.”
– Don Lancaster

25. “Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.”
– Jack Canfield

26. “The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun in the short run. It seems to me though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow, and who make an impact…those people have goals.”
– Seth Godin

27. “Goals give us purpose, which, in turn, motivates us to make ourselves the best version in all aspects of your life.”
– Hannah Bronfman

28. “If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.”
– Laurence J. Peter

29. “If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

30. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
– Andrew Carnegie

31. “If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don’t have enough goals.”
– Lou Holtz

32. “The more you can dream, the more you can do.”
– Michael Korda

33. “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
– Stephen King

34. “Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.”
– Robert H. Schuller

35. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.”
– Tim Notke

36. “Our goals can only be reached through the 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

37. “You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.”
– RJ Mitte

38. “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

39. “If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life that you want, you’re going to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.”
– Kevin Ngo

40. “I’m confident to say that if you want to grow in a profession, consistency is the key… I’m strict about my work goals and training.”
– Eliud Kipchoge

41. “Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.”
– Denis Waitley

42. “Dream your own dreams, achieve your own goals. Your journey is your own and unique.”
– Roy T. Bennett

43. “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

44. “I think goals should never be easy. They should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.”
– Michael Phelps

45. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
– Jim Rohn

46. “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
– Confucius

47. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
– Earl Nightingale

48. “The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”
– Benjamin E. Mays

49. “The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
– Napoleon Hill

50. “Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren’t sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.”
– John Carmack

51. “Motivation is interwoven with the goals you make and the habits you form in order to achieve them.”
– Matthew Lewis Browne

52. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
– Henry Ford

53. “The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.”
– Ray Kroc

54. “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
– Michelle Obama

55. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
– Muhammad Ali

56. “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

57. “Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”
– Seth Godin

58. “Goals justify the effort they demand at the outset, but later it is the effort that justifies the goal.”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

59. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”
– Babe Ruth

60. “The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focused on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.”
– Dr. Roopleen

61. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
– W. Clement Stone

62. “Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.”
– Bear Bryant

63. “One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”
– Michael Korda

64. “Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”
– Gary Ryan Blair

65. “Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.”
– Paul J. Meyer

66. “We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.”
– Stephen Covey

67. “Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.”
– Ralph Marston

68. “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Robert H. Schuller

69. “You can’t hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can’t catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can’t reach your goals if you don’t try.”
– Kathy Seligman

70. “Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.”
– Paulo Coelho

71. “If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start.”
– Simon Sinek

72. “A good goal is like a strenuous exercise—it makes you stretch.”
– Mary Kay Ash

73. “If you want to make your dream come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.”
– J.M. Power

74. “By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.”
– Mark Victor Hansen

75. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
– Bruce Lee

76. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John Wooden

77. “Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

78. “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”
– Brian Tracy

79. “The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.”
– Og Mandino

80. “Motivation is what drives a person to move forward and put action towards making their goals happen.”
– Brian Cagneey

81. “You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.”
– Rosalynn Carter

82. “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”
– Booker T. Washington

83. “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”
– Ted Turner

84. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
– Albert Einstein

85. “My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn’t always happen, but that’s what I try for.”
– Venus Williams

86. “Ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.”
– Paulo Coelho

87. “Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.”
– Bernice King

88. “This one step—choosing a goal and sticking to it—changes everything.”
– Scott Reed

89. “Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

90. “Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms, carry out your plan.”
– Paul J. Meyer

91. “If you’re serious about changing your life, you’ll find a way. If you’re not, you’ll find an excuse.”
– Jen Sincero

92. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”
– Oprah Winfrey

93. “You can always find a solution if you try hard enough.”
– Lori Greiner

94. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

Conclusion

Did you know that most people don’t reach their goals? It’s because they lack perseverance and belief in themselves. You need to believe that you can achieve anything you set your mind to and work on your goals even when you don’t feel like it. Aim to make smart moves and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Keep learning, keep trying and wonderful things can happen.

I hope these quotes about accomplishing your goals motivate you and give you more courage to go after your dreams. You’ll never know what could happen if you don’t even try. So dare to take the chance and see how far you can get.

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