Famous goal setting quotes

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There are many famous quotes out there regarding the importance of goal setting. Listed below are a few of our favourites....

• "Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals." - Aristotle




• "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” - Albert Einstein




• "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




• "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” - C.S. Lewis




• "Goals are not only absolutely necesary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive." - Robert H. Schuller




• "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




• "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson




• "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




• "When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing -- then we truly live life." - Greg Anderson




• "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” - Jimmy Dean




• "A goal without a plan is just a wish.” - Larry Elder




• "The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.” - Earl Nightingale




• "Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.” - Bo Jackson




• "If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?” - Basil S. Walsh




• "Goals are dreams with deadlines.” - Diana Scharf Hunt




• "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.” - Stephen A. Brennan




• "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” - Pamela Vaull Starr




• "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” - Confucius




• "Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” - Fitzhugh Dodson




• "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who with” - Denis Waitley




• "By losing your goal, you have lost your way.” - Kahlil Gibran




• "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

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