Goals Quotes

Do not question your ability or worthiness. God is a universe of purpose-driven balance. If you have been called to action, it is because you have it within you to rise to the challenge of your calling. Now, RISE to it!

~ Steve Maraboli

Like a gift, beautifully wrapped at the foot of your bed each morning, today asks that you open it and enjoy everything inside. Exhaust yourself with all it has to offer!

~ Steve Maraboli

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

~ Alain De Botton

Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams... countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'… countless books unwritten… countless songs unsung... I want to live my life in such a way that when my body is laid to rest, it will be a well needed rest from a life well lived, a song well sung, a book well written, opportunities well explored, and a love well expressed.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don’t let the agony, regret, or fog of yesterday blind you to the fact that each new day carries with it a plethora of opportunities to move your life into the right direction.

~ Steve Maraboli

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

~ Barry Deutsch

If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.

~ Stephen Richards

Each day brings a fresh opportunity for you to set the standard of how dedicated and committed you are to your needs, wants, goals, and relationships.

~ Steve Maraboli

Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the NOW.

~ Stephen Richards

There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.

~ Lalita Tademy

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.

~ Charles Darwin

Nobody ever talks about the pyramids that weren't built, the books that weren't written, the songs that weren't sung. Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity. Get out of your own way. Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul's wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them. There is no greater time than now to experience the full power of your potential. Make this the day you take the first step in the beautiful journey of bringing your dreams to life.

~ Steve Maraboli

You have to set the time frame for accomplishing your goal. If you don’t, it may take forever to reach your destination and you may get tired and change your focus. Consequently, to help you obtain and keep the sense of urgency that will help you stay focused, you have to set a deadline by which the goal has to be achieved.

~ Anna Stevens

when you shoot for the stars, you can't ever look back.

~ Brittany Perloff

To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear those glittering mirages called 'philosophical systems'; with bewitching deceptive power they show the solution of all enigmas and the freshest draught of the true water of life to be near at hand; his heart rejoices, and it seems to the weary traveller that his lips already touch the goal of all the perseverance and sorrows of the scientific life... Other natures again, may well grow exceedingly ill-humoured and curse the salty taste which these apparitions leave behind in the mouth and from which arises a raging thirst – without one having been brought so much as a step nearer to any kind of spring.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Unzip your life right now, air out the putrid and bleach the infection, then invite your childhood dreams back, beckon the best of you and breathe deeper than you have in a very long time. Believe in the holdings of your heart. You can become anyone and anything your heart desires once you clear the clutter and stuff yourself with positive power and intentions.

~ Toni Sorenson

If you are going to be a doubter, I don't need your negative energy.

~ Stephen Richards

TAKE ACTION! Wanting is not enough; Act upon your goals! If somebody was watching your day-to-day behavior, would they be able to see what you’re working towards; what your goals are? If the answer is no, FIX IT!

~ Steve Maraboli

Don’t make excuses; rather, find support and resources to make good things happen for yourself, your family, your businesses, your community, and the world you live in.

~ Anna Stevens

Many surround themselves with luminaries, but in so doing they dull their own sparkle. If you want to shine bright, look to the heavens and see how the brightest star always stands apart from those lesser shining stars.

~ Stephen Richards

All the answers to your questions about what your goals can and should be lie within, so does your power to accomplish those goals.

~ Anna Stevens

When the zone calls, you must listen. You never know how long being in the zone lasts.It is a cardinal rule - you must take advantage of every second that you are in the zone.

~ Johna Passaro

Your life is a reflection of how effectively you balance potential and kinetic energy.

~ Steve Maraboli

Managers’ responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company’s strategy. The company’s strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees’ productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor.

~ Anna Stevens

I recommend that you focus on both substance and process of your goals. I believe that both are equally important: by setting a high-quality SMART goal you will enable yourself to be conscious and your actions will carry more meaning; meanwhile, it is the execution of the SMART goals strategy that separates achievers from the rest of the people.

~ Anna Stevens

Success isn't something you have, it's something you do. Don't be fooled into taking shortcuts, they always lead to a dead-end. Instead, establish a goal, make a plan, and take purposeful action. Those who experience success are those who live it; those who earn it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

~ Paulo Coelho

Those who speak most of health, have it. Those who speak most of wealth, have it. Those who speak most of joy, have it. The opposite also holds true. So which would you rather have?

~ Stephen Richards

By fully experiencing and going beyond an emotional block - through the layers of doubt and fear - you experience the emotion of who you truly are.

~ Stephen Richards

You have two voices, one that only you hear, and another that you speak out loud with, so others hear you. Regardless of what you actually say with your mouth, what matters is what your inner voice says, for this is the one you listen to the most.

~ Stephen Richards

To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.

~ Stephen Richards

No matter what your wishes, they are not crazy so long as they are not crazy to you!

~ Stephen Richards

Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action!

~ Steve Maraboli

Whatever you do in your life, always go the distance.

~ Ken Norton

Often success goes hand-in-hand with the sum total of sexual activity in your life.

~ Stephen Richards

You have a right to feel the universe is willing to provide you with blessings, but not to the point that it cannot do without you.

~ Stephen Richards

You put yourself where you are, and if you find yourself unsatisfied with how you are, then get yourself out of it.

~ Stephen Richards

Your life is in your hands. Only YOU have the capacity to turn it into a rosy path or a thorn filled one. Increase your vibrational output with Cosmic Ordering and your future will be rosy.

~ Stephen Richards

Do not avoid doing what you love because you fear that it will only result in poverty or lack. If you fear this, then this is exactly what will happen.

~ Stephen Richards

The universe is infinite, and the experiences and opportunities available to us are likewise.

~ Stephen Richards