Meaningful Goals Quotes

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Love is not about how many days, months, or years you have been together. Love is about how much you love each other every single day.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Limit your always and your nevers.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other is life.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

The only way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Lost time is never found again.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

Where there is love there is life.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues.

It is unwise to be too sure of one is own wisdom.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it will always get you the right ones.

Loyalty is the pledge of truth to oneself and others.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us.

You know you are in love when you cannot fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

We are most alive when we are in love.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

In the end, it is not the years in your life that count. It is the life in your years.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else is life.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Friends are the family you choose.

A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.

Life was meant for good friends and great adventures.

Good friends are like stars. You do not always see them, but you know they are always there.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Do not be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it is all that matters.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Believe you can and you are halfway there.

It always seems impossible until it is done.

Do not watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

You miss 100% of the shots you do not take.

Whether you think you can or you think you cannot, you are right.

I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that will not work.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I am possible.

There is no substitute for hard work.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

Family is not an important thing. It is everything.

Family is where life begins and love never ends.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The family is one of nature is masterpieces.

In time of test, family is best.

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes.

Excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude.

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you will start having positive results.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.

Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day.

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

When you think positive, good things happen.

Stay positive, work hard, make it happen.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.

Dream big and dare to fail.

The only thing worse than starting something and failing is not starting something.

Do not dream your life, live your dream.

No matter where you are from, your dreams are valid.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Once you choose hope, anything is possible.

Hope is a waking dream.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.

When the world says give up, hope whispers try it one more time.

Hope is a force of nature. Do not let anyone tell you different.

While there is life, there is hope.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Courage starts with showing up, and letting ourselves be seen.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.

Do not count the years — make the years count.

The great thing about getting older is that you do not lose all the other ages you have been.

Live your life and forget your age.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The only reason for time is so that everything does not happen at once.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Do not count the days, make the days count.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

The love between a father and daughter is forever.

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.

Brothers and sisters are as close as hands and feet.

To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world.

The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Grandparents are the footsteps to the future generations.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

True friends are never apart, maybe in distance but never in heart.

A good friend knows all your best stories. A best friend has lived them with you.

The best teachers are those who show you where to look but do not tell you what to see.

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you than you see in yourself.

You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

You are my today and all of my tomorrows.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

I swear I could not love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.

You are my best friend, my human diary, and my other half.

I look at you and see the rest of my life in front of my eyes.

I choose you. And I will choose you over and over and over.

You are my greatest adventure.

I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, and all you are yet to be.

You are the source of my joy, the center of my world, and the whole of my heart.

I am much more me when I am with you.

You are my heart is home.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Hard work beats talent when talent does not work hard.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Dreams do not work unless you do.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

The earth has music for those who listen.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.

If you tell the truth, you do not have to remember anything.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Knowledge is power.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one is ignorance.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The more that you read, the more things you will know.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work.

Do not worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

Where focus goes, energy flows.

Starve your distractions, feed your focus.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Genius is eternal patience.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Humility will open more doors than arrogance ever will.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Every lie is two lies, the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

Without loyalty there is no love. Without trust there is no relationship.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.

The path to wisdom is paved with humility.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Find your purpose, and you will find your peace.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

The awakening of the heart is the beginning of love.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

The greatest skill is the ability to learn.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Every obstacle is a stepping stone to success.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

The struggle you are in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.

The greatest wealth is health.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.

The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.