Goal Quotes

We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be.

It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

Catholic dioceses typically spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recklessly, then filed for bankruptcy. The goal was to avoid the money going to the hands of victims of predator priests.

It's unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don't have a great record in finals, but I'm getting closer to .500, which is nice.

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

The foundation of a good relationship with intentions & goals is keeping in mind that the primary aim of setting and working toward them is to feel the way you want to feel.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.

I know you define leads by goals having the lead, but we never really had the lead.

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

When leadership set the goals by themselves, they are not goals, they are quotas.

I think positive stress is actually a good thing. It's sort of the stretch goal "Wow, let me see how much faster I can run" or "Let me see how many more ideas I can generate in five minutes."

I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

I think the most important goal I scored in Spain was the first one because people were wary about me coming over to Spain as a player - they thought I was just there to sell shirts.

That goal [in the 1998 World Cup] changed me-not as a person, but as a player. People have looked at me differently ever since. It gave me confidence and now I feel I can achieve anything.

I always said, you have to have a goal and an objective in life.

Chefs who cook in these ivory towers are in control in their own world. We try to approximate that world as best we can, but ultimately our goal is to please our clients.

This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.

Donald Trump's big goal is to become the richest man in the world, abusing the powers of the presidency.

Our impulses toward instant gratification aren't to be trusted. Hoarding our resources isn't a worthy goal. We're created with eternity in our hearts, and our lives have everlasting value.

It must be easy to be a liberal. When your policies don't work, you just change the goal posts and say we haven't done enough - and then demand more.

The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.

David has scored 62 goals in 148 games for Ipswich and those statistics tell me that he plays games and scores goals. (on David Johnson)

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

Gardening is ultimately a folly whose goal is to provide delight.

Enjoy the present, plot the progress, you'll still reach the goal

The best way to motivate other people to help YOU fulfil your goals is to help them fulfil THEIR goals

The goal actually, is to wake up now.

My original goal was just to do stand-up but then I became interested in films - writing a film, shooting one someday, and getting to act in them.

Marriage was a goal. A family, for me as a young girl, was my image of what I hoped for. It was part of the big picture.

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.

The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.

Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.

Once you get in shape, you'll be amazed at how many other goals you'll want to achieve in your life. Fitness breeds enthusiasm.

All I can say is that the only person that can stop you from achieving your goals is yourself. If you believe, then everyone else will too.

It's a brutal regime, in the Assad regime, that is willing to take any measure, no matter how immoral or war criminal acts, to persecute its goals.

Handle yourself like a professional on the field and you have one goal-and that's to win.

I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.

I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.

I believe history teaches us a categorical lesson: that once a people are determined to become free, then nothing in the world can stop them reaching their goal.

I grew up in this medical atmosphere, and thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was a hippie, didn't have a lot of goals.