Do you know that setting a goal increases your productivity by 50%? It is a fact that setting a goal helps you stick on to goal-relevant activities and avoid irrelevant actions. Goal setting is nothing but adding discipline to your deeds. It provides you with energy to cover that extra mile and reach your destination as fast as possible. Yes, it makes your life meaningful and active because you now know your target and just need to focus on it. Achieving a goal depends up on how passionately you chase your dream and try to achieve it. Setting a goal alone is not enough, you need to be motivated enough to work towards it and accomplish it. Lack of motivation gradually deflates your enthusiasm and deflects your focus. Here are some quotes that help you realize the importance of setting a goal and motivate you. Read on to get inspired!

Quotes On Goal Setting

• Goals determine what you’re going to be. – Julius Erving
• Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. – Les Brown
• If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. – Andrew Carnegie
• 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
• People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. It’s as simple as that. – Earl Nightingale
• The higher goal a person pursues, the quicker his ability develops, and the more beneficial he will become to the society. I believe for sure that this is also a truth. – Maksim Gorky
• All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney
• The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
• Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving – Dennis Waitley
• The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it. – Goethe
• 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. – Stephen A. Brennan
• The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them. – Denis Waitley
• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw
• Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan
• Be sure to take the most direct route to your dreams. Never take your eyes off your goal, or you will lose course. Never look back in sorrow, or you will trip. – Joe Brown
• Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. – Napoleon Bonaparte
• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford
• Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want. – Robert Allen
• Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. – Robert H. Schuller
• The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success. – Henry Ward Beecher
• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. – Seneca
• Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it. – Burmese Saying
• Goals are dreams with deadlines. – Diana Scharf Hunt
• Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal. – Elbert Hubbard
• Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right. – Aldous Huxley
• The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. – Michel de Montaigne
• Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. – Brian Tracy
• There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. – Henry Ford
• Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before. – Polybius
• For me, goals are my road map to the life I want. They have helped me accomplish things I once thought were impossible. – Catherine Pulsifer
• Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life. – Harvey Mackay
• Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive. – Howard Thurman
• Commitment is the key to unlocking the door to your dreams! You must commit to your goals. – Tracy Lyn Moland
• The first step to getting the things that you want out of life: Decide what you want. – Ben Stein
• Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal. – Elbert Hubbard