Quotes on Achieving Goals

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

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

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

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

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.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

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

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.

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

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

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.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.