Goal setting is an essential skill for students to develop as it can help them achieve success in all aspects of their lives! By setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound goals, students can focus their efforts and achieve their dreams. In this article, we share 90 inspirational goal-setting quotes that are sure to motivate and encourage students to set and achieve their goals.
1. “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” – Tony Robbins
2. “Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.” – Les Brown
3. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie
4. “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” – Zig Ziglar
5. “Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.” – Robert H. Schuller
6. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” – Earl Nightingale
7. “You must have long-term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.” – Charles C. Noble
8. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra
9. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
10. “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.” – Brian Tracy
11. “Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.” – Bo Jackson
12. “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
13. “Setting goals is the key to success. Without goals, you lack focus and direction.” – Anonymous
14. “The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.” – Michelle Obama
15. “The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
16. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar
17. “All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” – Orison Swett Marden
18. “A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.” – Bo Bennett
19. “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.” – Pablo Picasso
20. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
21. “Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” – Fitzhugh Dodson
22. “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill
23. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” – Henry Ford
24. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
25. “Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.” – Bob Proctor
26. “The difference between a goal and a dream is a deadline.” – Steve Smith
27. “You can’t hit a target you can’t see, and you can’t see a target you don’t have.” – Zig Ziglar
28. “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
29. “Goals are dreams with deadlines.” – Diana Scharf Hunt
30. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
31. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
32. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.” – Chantal Sutherland
33. “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” – Warren Buffett
34. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
35. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
36. “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
37. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
38. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
39. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
40. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
41. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill
42. “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” – Jim Rohn
43. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
44. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
45. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
46. “You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
47. “By recording your goals and dreams on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be.” – Mark Victor Hansen
48. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
49. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.” – Steve Jobs
50. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu
51. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” – Amelia Earhart
52. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
53. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
54. “Chase your dreams until you catch them…and then dream, catch, and dream again!” – Dee Marie
55. “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.” – Nikos Kazantzakis
56. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
57. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” – Robert Collier
58. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
59. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
60. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
61. “There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.” – Zig Ziglar
62. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill
63. “It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.” – Jillian Michaels
64. “The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance.” – Oprah Winfrey
65. “You are capable of more than you know.” – E.O. Wilson
66. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
67. “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
68. “Goals transform a random walk into a chase.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
69. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
70. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
71. “Set your goals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you.” – Unknown
72. “Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.” – James Ling
73. “If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but never the goal.” – Unknown
74. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” – John C. Maxwell
75. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
76. “Set your goals. Follow your dreams. Listen to your heart. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.” – Maurice Chevalier
77. “Dream big and dare to fail.” – Norman Vaughan
78. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
79. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
80. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” – Bruce Lee
81. “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” – Og Mandino
82. “Don’t wait until you reach your goal to be proud of yourself. Be proud of each step you take toward reaching that goal.” – Unknown
83. “Make each day your masterpiece.” – John Wooden
84. “What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.” – Tony Robbins
85. “When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there.” – Zig Ziglar
86. “You are never too young to dream big.” – Unknown
87. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson
88. “The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.” – Malcolm X
89. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke
90. “The greatest teacher, failure is.” – Yoda, Star Wars.
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