Goals Quotes

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Aim higher in case you fall short.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence.

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

A year from now you may wish you had started today.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.

To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.

If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.
Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.
What would you like to have happen in your life this year? What would you like to do, to accomplish? What good would you like to attract into your life? What particular areas of growth would you like to have happen to you? What blocks, or character defects, would you like to have removed?
What would you like to attain? Little things and big things? Where would you like to go? What would you like to have happen in friendship and love? What would you like to have happen in your family life?
What problems would you like to see solved? What decisions would you like to make? What would you like to happen in your career?
Write it down. Take a piece of paper, a few hours of your time, and write it all down - as an affirmation of you, your life, and your ability to choose. Then let it go.
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

Cat: Where are you going?
Alice: Which way should I go?
Cat: That depends on where you are going.
Alice: I don’t know.
Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!

You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just
one star
to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.

Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.

Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.

I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

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.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;
In Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat, his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in However Long and Hard the Road BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983