74 Inspirations For Personal Goals: The Best Quotes And Sayings

Why are goals important?

Job interviews often ask what goals the applicant has for the near future. Some find it easy to spontaneously answer this question – and answer it in detail – while others have a constructed sentence at the ready for this exact question because it simply seems impossible for them to define a concrete goal for themselves. Rather, they live their lives from one day to the next without having a rough idea on where their journey of life should lead. This is completely fine. But it also helps people who are among the latter to see their way through a goal a little more clearly. Many people benefit from having a – more or less – defined goal to stick to. It provides motivation and orientation and gives support in rough patches of life not to lose sight of the horizon. For a bit of encouragement to set yourself goals and to get an idea of how different they can be, please read on.  

• “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” (Tony Robbins)
• “The only goals you don’t achieve in life are the goals you don’t set.” (Matt Fox)
• “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” (Bill Copeland)
• “Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you." (Andy Andrews)
• “In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.” (Unknown)
• “Where are the people who don’t have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.” (Shiv Khera)
• “Goals transform a random walk into a chase.” (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
• “Without any goal, it’s as if you are only doing things in random.” (Ryan Cooper)
• “The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.” (David Allen)
• “Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.” (Robery H. Schuller)
• “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” (Andrew Carnegie)
• "The aimless one suffers his fate – the determined one shapes it." (Immanuel Kant)
• “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” (Jim Rohn)
• "The way is found only when you know where you are going." (Laozi)
• “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” (Albert Einstein)
• “The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” (Benjamin E. Mays)
• “All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.” (Norman Vincent Peale)
• “Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.” (Carl Schurz)
• “If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it.” (Jill Koenig)
• “When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” (Confucius)
• “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” (Brian Tracy)
• “Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.” (Viktor Frankl)
• “Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.” (John Dewey)
• “No desired achievement is gained without any goal setting.” (Wayne Chirisa)
• “Goals are like a map. They help us determine where we want to end up, and give us personal direction on which to focus our energy.” (Catherine Pulsifer)