Goal Quotes

I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.

Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.

An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.

That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom.

Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

I mean my goal is to get Michael Richards to do stand up at the Laugh Factory to an all black audience.

If God wants something done, can it be done? I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible, uncertain, nor can it be blocked.

I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.

Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.

We need a national renewable energy goal. Such a goal, sometimes called a renewable energy standard (RES), would spell out what percentage of our power America plans to get from renewable sources.

Listen to the advice from the one who's already achieved your goal

My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.

The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways.

Worry is negative goal setting.

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day.

Unprovoked attacks on Israel's borders, murdering Israeli soldiers, taking Israeli hostages and showering rockets targeting and killing Israeli civilians are not furthering any legitimate goal.

I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.

The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

My goals have always been to inspire people to be the best they could be, on and off the field.

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

My goal in life was to pursue the good life.

I have my own goals in my head in terms of things that would be great to happen.

So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at the beginning, big goals and objectives, you do the thing because you love it.

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

You have to dream big, wish hard and chase after your goals, because no one is going to do it for you.

The path is the goal.

It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

My goal is to spread the word about the need for more blood donors.

Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.