8 Bible Verses about Goal Setting

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down [and] calculate the cost [to see] if he has [enough] {to complete it}? {Otherwise} [after] he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish [it], all who see [it] will begin to ridicule him, saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish!'read more.
Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand.

Anyone who is clever will act with intelligence, but the fool will display folly.

Plans go wrong when there is no counsel, but with many advisors it will succeed.

The plans of the diligent only [lead] to abundance, but all who are hasty, only to want.

Instead you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

Commit your work to Yahweh, and your plans will be established.

The {mind} of a person will plan his ways, and Yahweh will direct his steps.

For I know the plans that I [am] planning concerning you,' {declares} Yahweh, 'plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.