If one does not know where one is going, one will end up anywhere. Hence the importance of goals. See what famous people have said about goals.
Two teams are playing a game of football against each other. Now imagine that there are no goal posts. How will the game proceed? Similarly, it is impossible to play the game of life without goals.
Knowingly or unknowingly, all of us have goals. No successful person has ever achieved success without consciously setting up and achieving goals.
Just as a car has to be refueled after traveling a certain distance, our mind has to be remotivated from time to time when we are in quest of a goal. That is the purpose of the goal quotes given below.
Goals Quotes
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
- Diana Scharf Hunt
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
- Seneca
People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that
- Earl Nightingale
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.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, That can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time.
- Source unknown
In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
- Henry David Thoreau
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther.
- Orison Swett Marden
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
- Mary Kay Ash
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
- John Wolfgang Van Goethe
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
Dreams do come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
- John Updike
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it.
- Source unknown
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
- Denis Waitly
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Author Unknown
It is never too late to be who you might have been.