To achieve big goals requires that we learn from those who have. We all need a boost through daily reinforcement and mindset immersion, especially when the going gets tough. To help with that, we’re sharing some of our favorite goals quotes to help inspire and motivate us all.

Today, thanks to the internet, we get to witness people all over the world succeeding in building their dreams. We have ready access to learn from them and from each other, and in so doing, elevate ourselves, those around us and those who have inspired us as well.

Are You Driven, or Unmotivated?

“Goals never stop calling you.”
~Brandy Swartz, artist, entrepreneur

IF YOU FEEL DRIVEN, this is why. It’s how we’re wired.

If you don’t… if you feel unmotivated, you just haven’t yet found your mojo. How to find it? Begin with that which you enjoy… with goals that you’ve put off. One step at a time, one day at a time, progress is empowering, energizing and intoxicating.

Procrastination deprives you of becoming more of your future self… more of who you’re meant to be. Stop procrastinating and just start. With each step and each effort, you will gain momentum and that’s where the magic lives… that alchemy of effort and potential brings your dreams to life. YOU… bring them to LIFE.

Bring it and you will become it!

If you have your own goals quotes—by you or others—feel free to send them for inclusion in this list. We periodically add more as we come across them.

Inspiring quotes are like healthy snacks for the mind, and best consumed frequently, first and foremost.

“Fill up on the good and you won’t have room for the bad.”
~LeAura Alderson, creator iCreateDaily.com®

Goals Quotes

Action and Goals Quotes

Goals quotes related to taking action, starting and getting things done… “The day is the way.”™

“Bring it and you will become it!”
~LeAura Alderson, CreateDaily.com®

“Will you create a future? Or will you be defined by the past? Will you let the days go by in distraction? Or will you squeeze all the juice you can out of today?” 
~Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist, author, b.1989

“The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing.“
~Walt Disney, entrepreneur, animator, creator, 1901-1966

Ambition and Goals Quotes

“Don’t be afraid to be ambitious about your goals. Hard work never stops and neither should your dreams.”
~Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, actor, entertainer, & entrepreneur, b.5/2/1972

Attitude and Goals

“Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams.  Let go of your nonsense.  Let go of the delusion that you deserve better and go earn it.”
~Steve Maraboli, speaker, author, & behavioral scientist, b.4/18/1975

Awareness and Goals

“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, 4 BCE-65 AD

Belief and Goals Quotes

“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, Spanish painter, poet, playwright, sculptor, ceramicist, 1881-1973

Challenges and Goals

You’re not meant to do what’s easy. You’re meant to challenge yourself.
~Justin Timberlake, singer-songwriter, actor, dancer, b.1/31/1981

Change and Goals Quotes

“If we don’t change the direction we’re going, we’re likely to end up where we are headed.”
~Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher & writer, c.6-4 BC