21 Quotes to Inspire You to Reach Your Goals

It’s easy to start working toward a goal, isn’t it? The real challenge to reaching our goals comes when we meet with resistance. Maybe we have an unexpected roadblock like inadequate funding or resources. Maybe we can’t recruit the help we need. Either way, if your goal’s worth pursuing, you’ll find a way to persevere.

This article contains great quotes to keep you going when you meet resistance to accomplishing your goals. Enjoy!

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” — Steve Jobs

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.” — Bruce Lee

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela

“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.” — Walt Disney

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison

“To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate.” — Senator John Glenn

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” — Henry Ford

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“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

“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

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” — Andrew Carnegie

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.” — Aldous Huxley

“Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.” — David Ogilvy

“People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.” — Earl Nightingale

“It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To reach a port, we must sail — Sail, not tie at anchor — Sail, not drift.” — President Franklin Roosevelt

“Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” — Muhammad Ali

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” — Jim Rohn

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