Setting goals is what keeps us growing. Whether we are working on physical, mental, relational self improvement, goals are what give us a vision for the future.

Once you have your goals written and you have a vision for what the future could hold, you can feel momentum that is maintained over time or, just as easily, you can feel a slump that pulls you off course.

In moments of overwhelm, discouragement, failing, these 50 quotes about dreaming and goal setting are what can keep you afloat!

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

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“Reach high for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” -Rabindranath Tagore

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“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” -Robert H. Schuller

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“In order to know where you’re headed, you must be aware of your own personal goals.” -Brian Cagneey

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“The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focused on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.” -Dr. Roopleen

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“A goal without a plan is just a wish.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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“People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.” -Earl Nightingale

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“Always stay true to yourself, and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.” -Michelle Obama

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“A year from now, you may wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb

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“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” -Stephen Hawking

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“If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don’t have enough goals.” -Lou Holtz

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

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“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

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“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” -Michael Korda

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“You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.” -RJ Mitte

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“You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.” -Ted Turner

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“If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.” -Lawrence J. Peter

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“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” -C.S. Lewis

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“I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.” -Rachel Carson

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“One part at a time, one day at a time, we can accomplish any goal we set for ourselves.” -Karen Casey

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“The great glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live with purpose.” -Michel de Montaigne

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“Your goal should be just out of reach but not out of sight.” -Remi Witt

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

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“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” -Stephen King

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“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” -George Whitefield

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“Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals.” -Jameela Jamil

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“With consistency and reps and routine, you’re going to achieve your goals and get where you want to be.” -Mandy Rose

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“No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.” -Jessica Savitch

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“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action step.” -Confucius

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“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

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“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” -Jim Rohn

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“Successful people do things that the average person is not willing to do. They make sacrifices the average person is not willing to make. But the difference it makes is extraordinary.” -Brian Tracy

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“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” -Orison Swett Marden

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“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

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“Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.” -Mark Twain

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“My goal is not to be better than anyone else but to be better than I used to be.” -Wayne Dyer

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“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.” -Benjamin E. Mays

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“Most impossible goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite-size chunks, writing them down, believing them, and going full speed ahead as if they were routine.” -Don Lancaster

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“Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.” -Denis Waitley

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“A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.” -Greg S. Reid

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The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.” -Robin Sharma

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

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“Goals transform a random walk into a chase.” -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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“This one step choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.” -Scott Reed

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“Goals are the fueled in the furnace of achievement.” -Brian Tracy

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“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” -Japanese Proverb

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“A good goal is like a strenuous exercise – it makes you stretch.” -MaryKay Ash

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“A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.” -Thomas Fuller

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