Executive coach Randi Raskin Nash has some favorite quotes on goal-setting. If you’re looking to get motivated to take on some pending tasks on your to-do list now, so you can hit the ground running in the New Year, check out her tips on how to do so, and read these quotes to get some inspiration. As Raskin Nash says, “If you don’t start, you’ll never finish.”

* “Do it now – you become successful the moment you start moving towards a worthwhile goal.” – Author Unknown

* “Unless you move, the place where you are is the place you will always be.” – Ashley Brilliant

* “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” – Anna Quindlen

* “The most important thing about goals is having one.” — Geoffrey F. Abert

* “You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.” — Yogi Berra

* “First, say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus

* “Do first things first, and second things not at all.” — Peter Drucker

* “Goals are dreams with deadlines.” – Diana Scharf Hunt

* “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no alive who is youer than you. “ — Dr. Seuss