100 Goal-Setting Quotes That Inspire Clear Direction

Clarity of purpose is the first step toward progress.

Setting goals helps turn vision into reality and keeps your momentum focused.

These quotes dive into the importance of defining what you want and committing to the journey.

Perfect for anyone planning their next move.

Top Goal-setting Quotes

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached. ~ Zig Ziglar

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ~ Albert Einstein

Goals are dreams with deadlines. ~ Diana Scharf

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. ~ Jim Rohn

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. ~ Yogi Berra

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. ~ Tony Robbins

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. ~ Brian Tracy

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them. ~ Michelle Obama

It’s better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb than at the top of the one you don’t. ~ Stephen Kellogg

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals. ~ Booker T. Washington

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. ~ Les Brown

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. ~ Earl Nightingale

The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ~ Michelangelo

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

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential. ~ Steve Garvey

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~ Zig Ziglar

The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. ~ Benjamin Mays

Strategic Goals Quotes

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions. ~ Henry Mintzberg

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. ~ Michael Porter

Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder. ~ Joel Ross

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy. ~ Michael Porter

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different. ~ Michael Porter

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. ~ Charles de Gaulle

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal. ~ Michael Porter

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

If everybody’s doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction. ~ Sam Walton

Good strategy requires leaders to say no to a whole array of possible initiatives, even though each one on its own looks promising. ~ Richard Rumelt

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. ~ Sun Tzu

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish. ~ Michael Porter

A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique. ~ Michael Porter

The best strategies are those that create a sustainable competitive advantage. ~ Michael Porter

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change. ~ Michael Porter

Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art. ~ Peter Drucker

A good strategy must be accompanied by a strong execution culture. ~ Ram Charan

Strategy is not the consequence of planning, but the opposite: its starting point. ~ Henry Mintzberg

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. ~ Sun Tzu

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success. ~ Pete Johnson

Objective Setting Quotes

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. ~ Lee Iacocca