Doubt about our capabilities and fear of making mistakes are typical causes of stunted growth in our personal development. However, knowing that we are in control of our lives makes a difference.
Whichever path we choose doesn't matter. What matters is that we make a choice. If we have a growth mindset, we can confidently overcome all the challenges that come our way.
Here are some motivational quotes for achieving goals that will inspire you to use your resilience to become a better person and create a better life.
Quotes about achieving goals
"Don't think, just do."
“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is the formation of yourself." George Bernard Shaw
“Failure is not fatal, but failure can be fatal.” John Wooden
“Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.”
“There is no man anywhere who cannot do more than he thinks.” Henry Ford
“It’s never too late to become what you might have been.” George Elliot
“Either you control the day, or the day controls you.”
“There is no greater agony than harboring an untold story.” Maya Angelou
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Take action! Action will shape and define you.
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
“Always do your best. What goes around comes around."
“It takes courage to grow and become who you really are.” E. Cummings
“The more difficult the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
“No one can go back and make a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
“Nothing will work out unless you do it.” John Wooden
"We may face many defeats, but we must not be defeated."
“It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are."
“Great things are accomplished not by strength, but by perseverance.” Samuel Johnson
“The tragedy of life is not so much what people suffer, but what they miss.” Thomas Carlyle
“True happiness involves making full use of your strengths and talents.”
“Doing the impossible is fun.” Walt Disney
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. This is the highest quality after honor."
“The measure of success is not whether you have a difficult problem to deal with, but whether you have the same problem as last year.” John Foster Dulles
“Even if you fall on your face, you will still move forward.”
“Vision is not enough. It needs to be combined with adventure. It is not enough to look at the steps; we must also climb the stairs.” Vaclav Havel
“Be unhappy. Or motivate yourself. No matter what happens, it is always your choice."
“Push – there is no substitute for persistence. There will be no talent; nothing is more common than talented losers. There will be no genius; a hopeless genius is almost a proverb. There will be no education; the world is full of educated outcasts. Only perseverance and determination are omnipotent.”
“Destiny is not an accident, it is a matter of choice; it is not something to be expected, it is a thing to be achieved.” Winston Churchill
“Quality is not an action, it is a habit.”
“You have to do what you think you can’t do.”
“When one door closes, another opens; but we so often look so long and with such regret at closed doors that we do not see those that open for us.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by what you didn’t do than by what you did do.” So. . .Sail from safe harbor. Carry out investigations. Dream. Discover.”Mark Twain
“Accept challenges to experience the joy of victory.”
“Everything gets hard before it gets easy.” Thomas Fuller
“Go. Move forward. Aim high. Plan your takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come and push the plane. It just won't happen. Change your attitude and gain heights. Believe me, you will love it here.
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who continues to learn remains young."
“Essentially, if we want to control our lives, we must control our consistent actions. It is not what we do from time to time that shapes our lives, but what we do constantly."
“The problem that people have is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed.” Michelangelo
“History has shown that the most famous winners usually faced heartbreaking obstacles before achieving victory. They won because they refused to be upset about their losses." BC Forbes
“It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from. The ability to win starts with you. Always."
“We don’t conquer the mountain, but ourselves.”
“Don't worry about failure. Worry about the chances you'll miss when you don't even try." Sherman Finsilver
“If you fell yesterday, get up today.”
“Setting goals is the first step to turning the invisible into the visible.”
“Don’t be afraid to grow slowly, just be afraid to stand still.”
“You can choose to go back to safety or move forward to growth. Growth must be chosen again and again. Fear must be overcome again and again.”
“No dream is ever too big. No dreamer is too small.”
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says: "I am possible"
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
"It's never too late to be who you could be."
"There are better starters than me, but I'm a strong finisher."
“Soon, when everything is fine, you will look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.”
“Life’s challenge is inevitable, failure is optional.”
"You are capable of amazing things."
“We cannot become what we want by remaining as we are.”
“You are only limited by the walls you build yourself.”
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out.”
“Growth is not for everyone. Some people just want to stay the same forever."
“When it comes. The hardest part begins."
“When you move, great things happen.”
“You can scream, you can cry, but don’t give up.”
“Growth is the only evidence of life.”
“Do your job with all your heart and you will succeed—there is so little competition.”
“Beautiful girl, you were forced to do hard things. So believe in yourself."
“It’s okay not to know. Not trying is not normal.”
“You are capable of so much more than you can even imagine.”
“Small progress every day makes a big difference.”
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
“Whenever you doubt how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember all the things you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome.”
"It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop."
“When you feel like you’re drowning while alive, don’t worry—your lifeguard is walking on water.”
“Character is what you do on the third and fourth try.” James A. Michener
“Everything you need to achieve your goals is already within you.”
"Winners never quit and quitters never win."
“It always looks impossible until you do it.” Nelson Mandela
“You can't handle the rest of your life in one day. Just relax. Take control of your day. Then just keep doing it every day.”
"Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but actually you've been planted."
"You just can't beat a man who doesn't give up."
“The best revenge is a huge success.” Frank Sinatra
“You were given this mountain to show others that it can be moved.”
“Most of the important things in the world have been achieved by people who kept trying when there seemed to be no hope.” Dale Carnegie
"Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable."
"Take a deep breath, it's just a bad day, not a bad life."
“Our greatest weakness is to give up. The surest way to succeed is to try again." Thomas Edison
“Someday everything will make sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.”
“Survival can be summed up in three words: never give up. This is the crux of the matter. Just keep trying."
“Hey little fighter, things are about to get brighter.”
"I'm not afraid of storms because I'm learning to sail my ship."
“Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't give up." Conrad Hilton
“It’s time for us all to stand up and cheer for a achiever—one who recognizes the problems and does something about them.” Vince Lombardi
“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
how to set goals and objectives correctly
Dreaming of making our incredible desires come true, we are always faced with the inability to define our goals and dreams. Let's figure it out, because the dream is the stronghold of our abstract thinking. We fantasize, we want a lot, but we do not translate our dreams into materiality. For example, as children we all dream of being magical fairies, veterinarians, teachers and actors. But when we grow up, unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, dreams remain dreams, because we realize that over time, other interests and more global goals in life appear.
What is the difference between a dream and a goal? Let's take a look at the Russian language dictionary. A goal is what they strive for, what they want to achieve; pre-planned task, plan (Dictionary of the Russian Language, RAS, Institute of Linguistic Research, Polygraphresources, 1999)
In the same dictionary we will find the interpretation of the word “ dream ”.
A dream is something created by imagination, fantasy; thought, thought about something desirable, alluring; desire, desire. Now, having found out the meaning of words, you can begin to analyze the concepts of how to set tasks and goals in the new year.
Methodology for setting goals and objectives “The Hundred”
The HUNDRED method has proven itself to be a successful practical method of goal setting. The method includes a set of tasks for setting financial goals, relationship goals, work and business goals, and personal goals. Using this method, you will increase your motivation and understand what goals you need to strive for in order to make your life better and more fulfilling.
How to use this goal setting technique:
- set 50 material goals for yourself and your family (indicate real goods and services)
- 20 career goals (achievements at work)
- 10 professional (knowledge development, education, training)
- 10 for health promotion
- 10 most unrealized “secrets”
Watch a video about setting goals and objectives in the video of Spartak Andrieshin
How goals should be written:
they must be written in the present tense, for example:
I'm losing 5 kg
I successfully open my own business
I am starting a qualitative restructuring of the sales department
I douse myself with cold water every morning and feel great.
I am buying a vacation package on a sea cruise for my wife and children
How to track progress:
- For each task, set an approximate completion date that you consider acceptable for its implementation.
- Monitor your progress by reviewing your list at least once a week and make mini-summaries of what worked and what is stalling.
- As soon as your wish comes true, cross it off the list.
You need to write this list of 100 items in 1 day, or better yet, sit down, collect your thoughts and write everything down. At the moment of maximum concentration, you will better remember what you wanted before and did not realize.
methods of goal setting using Franklin's pyramid
Cool statuses about a dream
- Live your dream.
- Dream until your dream comes true...
- Run upward after your dreams, completely forgetting about tears, fatigue and pain.
- Don't fall into the trap of someone else's dream.
- As long as we believe in our dreams, nothing is accidental.
- All dreams have a price.
- Sometimes dreams come true easily and quickly, you just need to convince yourself that this is your dream.
- My dream is to have a dream.
- It doesn't matter how much you dream about something, what matters is what you do for it.
- Only in dreams are people free! It has always been this way and will always be so.
- Our dreams are a reflection of ourselves.
- When we dream, we are real.
- The journey to your dream begins today.
- Every girl dreams of meeting her prince. But if the prince doesn’t come, the girl needs to take everything into her own hands.
- When a person has a dream, he will not listen to others. Everyone decides for themselves what is important to them.
- If you dream, then dream big.
- Sometimes dreams have to remain dreams.
- Don't give up on your dreams, ever!…
- You will become a better person if you live your dreams.
- If they tell you that dreams don't come true, don't believe them. They come true if you fight for them.
- Dreams are different... And so are the ways to realize them. It turns out that by choosing the wrong path, you can say goodbye to your dream without even getting closer to it.
- Everyone has a dream that they only talk about when they're drunk.
- For a dream to come true, you must be able to wait, think, be patient...
- There are two troubles in life: the first is never achieving your dreams, the second is achieving them.
- There is no need to impose your unrealized dreams on your children.
- Dreams are the fuel for the engines of progress.
- I dream of understanding what I am dreaming about.
- If you want to achieve your dream, sometimes you have to break the rules.
- To make a dream come true, you need to own it...
- There are times in life when you need to stop dreaming.
