The best motivation in life is wise sayings great and famous people– leaders, scientists, successful entrepreneurs. Their quotes about achieving a goal in a person’s life will become your motto and will help you not to lose faith in your own strengths and make your dream come true.
If you want to achieve significant heights in life, you cannot hope and expect that plans will come true on their own. The path to success must begin with defining a plan of action and, of course, motivation. At a minimum, it is necessary to answer the question: what is the greatest goal of your life? Statistically, people who move forward according to a plan are more likely to achieve success. Remember that the whole world lies at your feet, it is important to correctly define your goal and strive to achieve it every day.
Quotes about achieving goals from famous personalities
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a famous American singer and translator, said that it is much easier to immediately do something correctly and well than to later make excuses and explain why it was done poorly.
- The French writer La Rochefoucauld wisely noted that a person is inclined to justify himself, therefore he passes off his lack of will in achieving a goal as powerlessness.
- The famous figure skater Irina Rodnina said that it is impossible to achieve success in life and become successful if you constantly return to the past. You need to not only close the door there, but also throw away the key.
- The brilliant writers Ilf and Petrov came up with the phrase that numerous goals in life are a path to nowhere.
Psychologist's opinion: every person has a choice - to waste time trying to overcome all the obstacles and difficulties or to clearly see the dream in front of him and concentrate on its implementation and achievement. Every day it is necessary to take real steps aimed at implementing the plan. Trying to cope with all the difficulties is work for the present and is not productive. It turns out to be effective only for the future.
A few more phrases about the importance of determining the final result for which all the main efforts are made. They determine
- a successful person knows what he strives for, and a loser knows what he doesn’t want;
- It is better not to set a goal for yourself than to set one, but not make any effort to achieve it;
- the main goal in a person’s life should be socially significant and useful, attract and captivate;
- It’s not enough to say to yourself – this is the goal, you need to think about it carefully;
- Having a right and worthy goal is much more important than having opportunities;
- bold, well-thought-out dreams come true 110%; upon reaching a goal, a person always receives a pleasant bonus from life in the form of 10% to his result.
Effective motivation
Competent, effective motivation for success is also aimed at controlling one’s own emotions and feelings:
- the biggest mistake is wasting effort and time on experiencing a mistake, while determining that this is your goal in life;
- you should not rejoice at random success, because random success will not lead to the desired victory;
- dreams will be achieved by those who show not compliance, but perseverance and fortitude;
- When making a decision and moving forward, never betray your dream and do not be distracted by obstacles, otherwise you will become a victim of circumstances;
- the most important condition for success is faith in yourself, only faith in your own strengths will allow you to achieve your goal;
- use your power openly and as honestly as possible, only in this way will your efforts be effective and beneficial.
Of course, in achieving a dream, it plays an important role right choice allies. It is necessary to surround yourself with like-minded people who will support, help with advice, and share experiences. It is impossible to become successful alone.
- you should not have free time, otherwise you will never achieve the desired result;
- never plan anything under severe emotional stress;
- do not set a goal when you are angry, such a person is stupid because he wants to cross the ocean in a strong storm;
- If you want to reach heights, you need to be able to restrain your desires and limit yourself; if you want a lot, you won’t be able to realize your dream.
- set several goals for the year and determine their priority;
- divide your goals into areas. For example: financial, health, relationships.
And remember that any goal and dream must be specified - deadlines, final result, necessary resources, start of action, duration of each stage.
Useful video about achieving success.
Everything in this world has some purpose. And a person must have it, therefore, it will be useful to read all the quotes about the goal. To live your life more productively and get a lot done without being distracted by trifles and fuss, read quotes about goals more often, they will focus you on the right things.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes, stumble and fall; often the greatest rewards come from the things that scare us the most. Maybe you will achieve everything you want, and maybe even more than you imagined. Who knows where life will take you, the path is long, and in the end the journey itself is the goal.
One Tree Hill
I don't know what I want, but I will achieve it.
Frederick Beigbeder. Ideal
Don't listen to anyone who says you can't do something. Even me. Understood? If you have a dream, take care of it. People who can’t do something will insist that you can’t do it either. Set a goal - achieve it! And period.
Gabriel Muccino
You can achieve something, fight for what you believe in. Your dreams are your legitimate goals.
Jared Leto
This collection contains really good quotes about goals.
Knowing the path and walking it are not the same thing.
The Matrix
A painless lesson is meaningless. He who has not lost anything will not be able to achieve anything.
Fullmetal Alchemist
I don't want to become some kind of star, I will become a legend.
Freddie Mercury
The purpose of the quote (any one included in the collection) is to explain to everyone how important it is to set goals and go towards them. Yes, it is not always possible to achieve them, but the path itself already gives a lot.
If you really want something, you don't have to stop for something or anyone until you get it.
Gossip Girl
If you are heading towards your goal and stop along the way to throw stones at every dog that barks at you, you will never reach your goal.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. Writer's Diary
It's never too late to leave the crowd. Follow your dream, move towards your goal.
George Bernard Shaw
When it seems to you that a goal is unattainable, do not change the goal - change your action plan.
Confucius
There is no wealth in the world more priceless than a strong mind with a right purpose.
Joanne Rowling. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
It is better to move forward without a clearly formulated goal than to stand still without a goal, and certainly much better than to move backward without a goal.
Andrzej Sapkowski. Baptism by fire
For me there are two possibilities: either achieve the full implementation of my plans, or fail. If I succeed, I will become one of the greatest in history; if I fail, I will be condemned, rejected and damned.
Adolf Gitler
There is no main thing - everything is important for victory! (Zmear)
Obstacles on the way to the goal, testing our desire to achieve what we want! ()
Let's hit alcoholism with drunkenness! (Vova)
What is the goal, such are the morals. (Valery Krasovsky)
We are on the right track, but in a traffic jam. ()
Sometimes the goal does not justify the money spent on ammunition. ()
The goal does not always justify the money spent on ammunition. ()
Sometimes the goal does not justify the money spent on ammunition. ()
The point is not what you achieved, but what you gave up. (Gennady Malkin)
Difficulties give rise to the abilities necessary to overcome them. (Wendell Phillips)
People must be valued according to the goals they set for themselves. (Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay)
The most reliable compass on the path of life is the goal. (Boris Krutier)
While some are digging to the roots, others manage to reach the fruits. (T.Ber)
Life is a series of efforts. We see the goal, but we don't always see the road. (Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky)
He who hobbles along a straight road will outpace a runner who has lost his way. (Francis Bacon)
There are only two steps to go: one forward, one back. (Stanislav Jerzy Lec)
A person has three ways to act wisely: the first, the most noble, is reflection, the second, the easiest, is imitation, the third, the most bitter, is experience. (Confucius (Kun Tzu))
Every thing in the world is sweeter for us to pursue than to have. (William Shakespeare)
A pseudonym dreams of a big name. Otherwise, he would not have become a pseudonym. (Victor Konyakhin)
It may be that the whole goal on earth, to which humanity strives, lies solely in the continuity of the process of achievement, in other words, life itself. (Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky)
If you tripped and fell, this does not mean that you are going the wrong way. (Words by Vantala)
Once we finally lost sight of the goal, we redoubled our efforts. (Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens))
Nothing ruins a target like a hit. (Attributed to N. Fomenko)
Purposefulness is based on the art of neglecting the non-essential and secondary. (Mikhail Draispitz)
When you want to climb up, rely on your own legs. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Don't judge a person by what views he holds, but judge by what he achieves with them. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
We are all the same. Of the thousands of ways leading to the goal, we always instinctively choose the worst. (Alberto Moravia (Pinkerle))
Maybe you are now just at the age when you are building dreams and setting global life goals. Maybe you have already passed this stage and are bringing them to life, or maybe you have already achieved everything.
We don't know, but we do know that all successful people started with a dream. The burning desire to make their dream a reality became their first and perhaps most important driving force. The dream is to become your lighthouse, guiding star, which, even in the clouds of difficulties, continues to shine invitingly, giving you faith and new strength. Just be true to your dream and it won’t let you down!…
Aphorisms about dreams and goals
“If a traveler, climbing a mountain, is too busy with each step and forgets to check the guiding star, he risks losing it and going astray.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
“There are people who live without any purpose, who pass through the world like a blade of grass in a river: they don’t walk, they are carried along.” (Seneca)
“You are part of the parade of change. At the same time, you can conduct an orchestra, or you can clean up trash after the participants of the holiday. You make your own choice" (J. Harrington)"
“Our most important responsibility is to always keep our course in the direction of our deepest desires.” (Randolph Bourne)
“If you are walking toward a goal and stop at every step to throw a stone at every dog that barks at you, then you may not reach your goal.” (Fedor Dostoevsky)
“The slowest man, if of course he HAS A PURPOSE, walks faster than the one who runs aimlessly”
“A man without a dream is like a bird without wings!” (Unknown author)
“He who does not have a goal finds no joy in any activity.” (D.Leopardi)
“Where desire ceases, man ceases.” ... (Ludwig Feuerbach)
“If you dream small, you will never succeed big.” (Howard Schultz)
“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.” (Mabel Newcumber)
“The easiest dreams to realize are those that are not doubted.” (A. Dumas the Father)
“An obstacle is what a person sees when he turns away from his goal.” (D. Grossman.)
“Whoever wants the impossible is dear to me. “(I. Goethe)
“People easily believe what they passionately desire.” (Voltaire)
“To reach the goal, you must first go.” (Honoré Balzac)
“He who doesn’t know where he’s going, doesn’t tailwind." (Seneca)
“A man grows as his goals grow.” (Johann Friedrich)
“Perhaps the one who does the most dreams the most.” (Stephen Leacock)
“High goals, even if impossible, are dearer to us than low goals, even if achieved.” (I. Goethe)
“A goal is nothing more than a dream limited by time.” (Joe L. Griffith)
“Set big goals, because they are easier to achieve.” (Friedrich Schiller)
“You also need to manage your dream, otherwise, like a ship without a rudder, it will drift to God knows where.” (A.N. Krylov)
“To know the end to which we strive is prudence; to achieve this goal is the fidelity of the view; stopping on it is strength; to go further than the target is insolence.” (C. Duclos)
“Great minds set goals; other people follow their desires." (W. Irving)
“Whoever is too zealous in small things usually becomes incapable of great things.” (F. La Rochefoucauld)
“You have to aim above the target to hit the target.” (Emerson, Ralph Waldo)
“At first dreams seem impossible, then implausible, and then inevitable.” (Christopher Reeve)
“Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for a certain time, a goal for the year, for the month, for the week, for the day and for the hour and for the minute, sacrificing the lower goals to the higher.” (Tolstoy L.N.)
“Fanaticism is redoubling efforts without losing sight of the goal. (Santayana, George)
“Even if you are on the right path, you will simply be run over if you are. simply sit on the road." (Will Rogers)
“Don't be afraid of the future. Look at him, do not be deceived about him, but do not be afraid. Yesterday I climbed onto the captain's bridge and saw waves as huge as mountains and the bow of a ship that was confidently cutting them. And I asked myself why the ship overcomes the waves, although there are so many of them, and he is alone? And I realized that the reason is that the ship has a goal, but the waves do not. If we have a goal, we will always get where we want." (Winston Churchill)
“Sometimes a blow misses its target, but intention cannot miss.” (Rousseau, Jean-Jacques)
How many things were considered impossible until they were accomplished (Pliny the Elder).
Dream big; Only great dreams have the power to touch human souls! (Marcus Aurelius)
Start big, achieve even more, and never look back. We must always go beyond. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Never forget to dream! (Madonna)
Looking into the night sky, I thought that there were probably thousands of girls also sitting alone and dreaming of becoming a star. But I wasn't going to worry about them. After all, my dream cannot be compared with anyone else's. (Marilyn Monroe)
You will become a better person if you live your dreams (Kf One Tree Hill)
The dreams of great dreamers not only come true - they come true in a form even more daring than the one in which they were first clothed (Alfred Whitehead)
For most of us, the danger is not that a great goal seems unattainable and we miss it, but that the goal that is achieved is too small. (Michelangelo)
Somewhere in the middle of life we stop believing that we can do ANYTHING. And if we don't have a dream, we have nothing. (K-f 'Farmer-astronaut')
Since it is impossible, it must be done. (Alexander the Great)
Most people in the world fail to achieve their goals because they never actually put them first.
(Denis Whately, psychologist and mental performance coach)
Today, most people will return home to be greeted by dogs and children. The spouses will ask each other how the day went, and at night they will sleep. Stars will miraculously appear in the sky. But one star will be slightly brighter than the others. My dream will fly there. (George Clooney, Up in the Air)
If you give up on your dreams, what is left? (Jim carrey)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
It all started when I looked around and, not seeing the car of my dreams, decided to design it myself... (Ferdinand Porsche)
Champions do not become gyms. To become a champion, you need to start deep from within - with desire, dreams and a clear vision of your success. (Mohammed Ali)
My destiny is not to be like anyone else (Brigitte Bardot)
The worst thing that can happen to me is that I will become ordinary. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
I repeated to myself with early childhood: “I want to be the ruler of the world!” (Ted Turner, CNN founder)
If a goal were set, a chain of trial and error would itself lead to the desired result... (Haruki Murakami)
Don't listen to anyone who says you can't do something. Even me. Understood? If you have a dream, take care of it.
People who cannot do something in their lives will say that you cannot do it in your life either... Set a goal - achieve it! And period. (Will Smith, film 'The Pursuit of Happyness')
Nothing helps create the future like bold dreams. Today it’s utopia, tomorrow it’s flesh and blood. Victor Marie Hugo
If you dream, you won’t deny yourself anything. Danil Rudy
Fear of hell is already hell, and dreams of heaven are already heaven. Gibran Kahlil Gibran
To build a dream, let it build you. Salvador Daniel Ansigeris
Faith reveals abilities in a person that he did not even suspect, and any dreams come true. Juliusz Wontroba
You can even dream about what you can’t think about. Gennady Malkin
The more memories you have, the less room you have for dreams. Janusz Wasilkowski
A dream must rise to the level of a goal before it can be fulfilled, but fate will invariably make its own adjustments to our plans to achieve our goals. Unknown author
Even the stupidest idea can be executed masterfully. Leszek Kumor
Thinking about what you can do or what you can't do, in both cases you are right. Henry Ford
If you want to have something you've never had, start doing something you've never done. Richard Bach
Follow your path and let people say whatever they want. Dante Alighieri
Even sitting in a ditch, you can admire the sky. Oscar Wilde
This is impossible!" - said Reason. "This is recklessness!" - Experience noted. "It's useless!" - Pride snapped. “Try...” whispered Dream. Unknown author
Don't be afraid of dreams, be afraid of those who don't dream. Andrey Zufarovich Shayakhmetov
Dream is our weapon. Without a dream it is difficult to live, it is difficult to win. Sergei Timofeevich Konenkov
Don’t part with your illusions ahead of time - they will be useful to you more than once... Mikhail Genin
A dream comes true through faith. Artem Nio
Only a dreamer walks not on the earth, but on the globe. Evgeniy Khankin
We need dreamers. It's time to get rid of the mocking attitude towards this word. Many people still don’t know how to dream, and maybe that’s why they can’t get on par with time. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
Dreams are the cheapest way to make wishes come true. Wieslaw Cermak-Novina
A blue dream is a dream that has turned blue in anticipation of its fulfillment. Unknown author
Become a Human in thoughts, in deeds - Then dream of angel wings! Muslihaddin Saadi (Muslihaddin Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Mushrifaddin)
Humanity dreams only of what can be realized. Unknown author
Nature, like a kind smiling mother, gives herself to our dreams and cherishes our fantasies. Victor Marie Hugo
Everything that a person can imagine in his imagination, others can bring to life. Jules Verne
No matter how much we pay for our beautiful illusions, we will not remain at a loss. Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach
A true scientist is a dreamer, and whoever is not one calls himself a practitioner. Honore de Balzac
It is very easy to make plans, but it is even easier not to carry them out. Veselin Georgiev
Every normal person has a period when he prefers fiction to fact, because fact is what he owes to the world, while fantasy is what the world owes to him. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Dreamers don't have their head in the clouds; they are above that. Konstantin Kushner
The living fight... And only those alive are
Whose heart is devoted to a sublime dream. Victor Marie Hugo
Every dream is given to you along with the strength necessary to make it come true. However, you may have to work for it. Richard Bach
A dream is a imagined reality. Konstantin Kushner
If you dream of a rainbow, be prepared to get rained on. Dolly Parton
When we can no longer dream, we die. Emma Goldman
We must dream as much as possible, dream as hard as possible in order to turn the future into the present. Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin
What is impossible for simple eyes,
That inspired eye
We will understand easily in deep ecstasy. William Shakespeare
It is in dreams that new ideas are born... To achieve a dream - this is the greatest meaning of a person's life... Alexey Semenovich Yakovlev
Always beware of building castles in the air, because although these buildings are the easiest to build, they are the most difficult to destroy. Otto Eduard Leopold von Schönhausen Bismarck
Dreams are the cornerstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau
If you take away a person’s ability to dream, then one of the most powerful motivations that gives rise to culture, art, science and the desire to fight for a wonderful future will disappear. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
A dream is more powerful than reality. And how could it be otherwise if she herself is the highest reality? She is the soul of existence. Anatole France
For those who dream big and don't doubt their courage, there is a place at the top. James Sharp
There is a side to a dream that is better than reality; in reality there is a better side than the dream. Complete happiness would be a combination of both. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
They dream not only at night, but also while awake. (Ernst Simon Bloch)
Dreams are not an escape from reality, but a means to get closer to it. (William Somerset Maugham)
Youth dreams of what will never come true, old age remembers what never came true. Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
Blessed is he who sometimes lives in the future; Blessed is he who lives in a dream. Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev
Dreams become reality when thoughts turn into actions. Dmitry Andreevich Antonov
It is dangerous to joke with a dream; a broken dream can constitute the misfortune of life; chasing a dream, you can miss life or, in a fit of insane inspiration, sacrifice it. Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev
Death is not scary for a hero, As long as the dream runs wild! Alexander Alexandrovich Blok
Even a millionaire sometimes has some kind of cherished dream. For example, become a billionaire. Baurzhan Toyshibekov
“To achieve success, you need to set your goals a little higher,
than those that can currently be achieved.”
Max Planck
Dear friends! In this collection I would like to offer some well-known aphorisms and not so well-known quotes about the purpose in life. We all know how important purpose is in our life. It's interesting to see how it changes over time and with age. If you have children, ask them to write about their desired goals in life. What would they like to achieve? What do they prioritize? Hide this sheet and show it to them in a few years. Not only you, but also they will be surprised. Maybe you'll smile. And perhaps you will think about it.
Aphorisms about the goal
What is achievable by means of a ladder does not interest me.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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To reach your goal, you must first go
Honore de Balzac
Look for something that is higher than what you can find.
Daniil Kharms
Remember what is fair, feel what is beautiful,
to desire what is good is the goal of intelligent life.
August Platen
A mind that has no definite purpose is lost;
to be everywhere is to be nowhere.
Michel de Montaigne
Anyone who has been led to a goal has no right to consider that he has achieved it.
Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach
photo by john dominis (c)
Those who lack insight are not those who do not achieve their goals,
and those who pass by her
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Gunther Stephan (c)
Great minds have goals, others have desires.
Washington Irving.
To be who we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only purpose of life.
Baruch Spinoza.
by Gavin Hammond (c)
Only those who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
Frank Gaines.
If you have a great goal,
and your capabilities are limited, act anyway;
for only through action can your capabilities increase.
Sri Aurobindo
The slowest man, unless he loses sight of his goals,
walks faster than someone who wanders aimlessly.
G. Lessing
Peter Bowers (c)
How few people have their own goals.
And how many people make other people's goals their targets.
Stas Yankovsky
You can't change the direction of the wind
but you can always raise your sails to achieve your goal.
O. Wilde
Life goes breathless without an aim.
F. Dostoevsky
