It’s important to enjoy the process of reaching a goal as much as the attainment 

• The landscape changes, so enjoy it: of course, you have to have an objective in mind – to reach the top. But as you are going up, more things can be seen, and it’s no bother to stop now and again and enjoy the panorama around you. At every meter conquered, you can see a little further, so use this to discover things that you still had not noticed. Paulo Coelho   
• Enjoyment is not meant to be the final end state of a long and arduous process of attainment. It is meant to be woven through the tapestry of our lives now. In the present. And throughout the process along the way. Tom Morris
• Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. Nisargadatta Maharaj  
• We get more pleasure from making progress toward our goals than we do from achieving them because, as Shakespeare said, “Joy’s soul lies in the doing.” Jonathan Haidt   
• I’m going to enjoy every second, and I’m going to know I’m enjoying it while I’m enjoying it. Most people don’t live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn’t make any difference whether they’ve reached the goal or not. Jean Webster   
• It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Goal setting,  Intention,  Life is a process,  Life is a journey

The journey to a goal matters as much as the destination 

• It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin
• In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey. Paulo Coelho   
• Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey. Alex Noble   
• The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. Charles DeLint   
• Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast–you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. Eddie Cantor   
• Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip. Robert J. Hastings   
• The rat racer’s illusion is that reaching some future destination will bring him lasting happiness; he does not recognize the significance of the journey. Tal Ben-Shahar
• Life is a journey

If you are not enjoying the journey, you probably won’t enjoy the destination.   

• Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck
• Success is not only a goal. It is a journey. When you commit yourself to the journey, the goal is surely there to be attained. Sakshi Chetana
• Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.  Jules Michelet   
• It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ernest Hemingway
• Enjoyment

The climb to a goal matters as much as reaching the summit 

• It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb. Oprah Winfrey  
• I’ve learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. Andy Rooney
• Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak. Tal Ben- Shahar
• To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow. But of course, without the top you can’t have any sides. It’s the top that defines the sides. Robert M. Pirsig 
• Life is a climb

In fact, it’s the climb that makes the view from the peak so worthwhile      

• Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating. Denis Waitley   
• Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey. Harold V Melchert   
• The effort and the search matters as much as the prize
• Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. L. Konigsburg    
• In the end the great truth will have been learned: that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer than the prize, the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game. Benjamin Cordozo
• Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there — or failing to get there. Max Lerner   

What you become in the process of achieving a goal is far more important than what you get 

• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. Zig Ziglar   
• The highest reward for one’s toil is not what one gets for it, but what one becomes by it. John Ruskin
• The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them. Jim Rohn    
• The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. Jim Rohn   
• The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself. Bo Bennett
• Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. They only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long- lasting sense of fulfilment. Tony Robbins
• Genuine victory comes not from achieving a given goal but in refining yourself in the process. Mike Mahler
• Life itself is a journey after all, and what matters most is not what you are getting, but who you are becoming. Robin Sharma   
• How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. Robert Brault   
• It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Edmund Hillary 
• Growth,  Character

Have goals for the future but live in and savour the present moment 

• The happy person realizes life is all about having goals that inspire us AND loving this moment as we take baby steps in the direction of our ideals. Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar
• Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. Denis Waitley   
• Is your goal taking up so much of your attention that you reduce the present moment to a means to an end? Is it taking the joy out of your doing? Are you waiting to start living? If you develop such a mind pattern, no matter what you achieve or get, the present will never be good enough; the future will always seem better. A perfect recipe for permanent dissatisfaction and non- fulfillment, don’t you agree? Eckhart Tolle  
• If you then become excessively focused on the goal, perhaps because you are seeking happiness, fulfillment, or a more complete sense of self in it, the Now is no longer honored. It becomes reduced to a mere stepping stone to the future, with no intrinsic value. Your life’s journey is no longer an adventure, just an obsessive need to arrive, to attain, to ‘make it.’ You no longer see or smell the flowers by the wayside either, nor are you aware of the beauty and the miracle of life that unfolds all around you when you are present in the Now. Eckhart Tolle
• People say, “If I’m always setting goals and reaching for the future, then am I not squandering my now?” And we say, if in your NOW, you are using a future event to make you feel good, you are still feeling good in your now. And that’s the best use of NOW that you could ever find. Abraham-Hicks
• Live in the present,  Savouring

Enjoy the detours on the way 

• Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours. Doug Larson   
• Stop to enjoy the flowers at your feet
• In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. Albert Schweitzer