Quotes on Reaching Your Goals

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

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

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

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.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

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

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

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.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

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

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

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

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

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 will be sharing the adventure with them.

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

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.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

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