Top 100 A Goal Quotes
#1. I guess at the age of 15 was the first time I made a goal of wanting to be on television, and I didn't get a series until I was 23, which was 'The West Wing.'
Dule Hill
#2. When I set a goal, I work hard to achieve it.
Lisa Leslie
#3. Have an intrinsic sense of direction of life. Have a goal-oriented conviction and trust.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Set goals - high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.
Bear Bryant
#5. When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers
#6. Let us be among those who believe that the inner transformation of our lives is a goal worthy of our best effort. -P. 11
Richard J. Foster
#7. When you have a goal, there will also be a result.
Mohiro Kitoh
#8. The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#9. For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.
Arsene Wenger
#10. It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.
Denis Law
#12. If you are setting a goal without understanding the reason for it, then maybe you should reevaluate the goal in general.
Tina Brown
#13. Be a goal-setter, a go-getter, all the while, moving, in humility and kindness.
Kamini Arichandran
#14. Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal ... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?
Hunter S. Thompson
#16. Kindness is not "niceness." Kindness does not avoid conflict; kindness engages conflict, but with a goal of reconciliation.
Russell D. Moore
#17. Every spring, this happens: People discover hockey when daylight lasts longer and men grow beards and tie games do not end in shootouts but rather continue until a goal is scored. The seventh game only heightens the mood for players and fans alike.
George Vecsey
#18. It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content ... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble, and from babble to confusion.
Rene Daumal
#19. It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him.
Frank Herbert
#21. I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal that they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.
Tamara Tunie
#22. I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.
Greg Lake
#23. Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.
Ezra Taft Benson
#24. I had a goal. Step one has been accomplished.
And now I will see it through to the end.
Tahereh Mafi
#25. Moving therefore from an original center, the sexual engagements of infinite players have no standards, no ideals, no marks of success or failure. Neither orgasm nor conception is a goal in their play, although either may be part of the play.
James P. Carse
#26. Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.
Bill Gates
#27. There are several paths to success; We are given multiple opportunities to achieve our potential throughout our lives. Some get there a little faster than others. But one thing is for sure; NO ONE gets there without first having a goal then taking action and LOTS of it!
Rachael Bermingham
#29. If you don't have a goal, you will score zero even if you run with the fastest speed.
Israelmore Ayivor
#31. When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day.
George Alexiou
#32. If you don't have a goal and don't know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are just drifting around. (You'll never get anywhere)
Ahmed Ali Anjum
#33. Your main character not only needs a goal, she need an inner desire.
Jill Williamson
#35. I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.
Hermann Hesse
#36. I like Diaspora because it's audacious, it's driven by passion, and it's very, very hard to do. After all, who in their right mind would set as a goal taking on Facebook? That's sort of like deciding to build a better search engine - very expensive, with a high likelihood of failure.
John Battelle
#37. I always tried to make it a goal to relieve some of the stress my mother went through. I applied myself to school very diligently. I wanted to go out of state so I wouldn't have to depend on my mother.
Kellan Lutz
#38. Most movies, I forget about them while I'm watching them. I go every single day. But I've never thought about participating in any way. It's like being at home all day. It was never a goal to me.
David Sedaris
#39. If you're living a goal-focused life, then no matter what you have, it's never enough
Russ Harris
#40. Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
S. Jay Olshansky
#41. Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.
Tim Bray
#42. Don't set a goal to avoid pain or escape suffering; set a goal to live in joy and bliss to make this world joyful and blissful.
Debasish Mridha
#43. A goal isn't something you just arrive at and stop.You have to stay curious and hungry and foolish ...
Mario Andretti
#44. There's no relief, really, for me. I have relief after the Super Bowl. I set a goal to win the Super Bowl and that's where I'm going with it.
Donovan McNabb
#45. Peace is not a goal to achieve; peace is the way we desire to live.
Debasish Mridha
#46. You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds
Alex McLeish
#48. I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#49. It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the '50s, they had no more goal than a hit on the jukebox. Johnny Cash from the very beginning had a goal that he wanted to make music that lifted people's spirits.
Robert Hilburn
#50. When you're trying to achieve a goal, negative people will just bring you down. Surround yourself with the positive.
Dave Ramsey
#51. To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!
Voltaire
#52. No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal.
L. Ron Hubbard
#53. We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.
Noomi Rapace
#54. My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.
Catherine Stock
#55. If you want to do something and you have a goal, do it, don't wait, because your channel might change sometime soon - and quite unexpectedly.
Sean Swarner
#57. That's not a goal," Kit said.
"Why? Because it's not yours? Which is better, Kit Meinem of Atyar? A single great victory, or a thousand small ones?
Kij Johnson
#58. I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
John Darnielle
#59. Seeing someone have a goal and I if can help them to succeed then it is a big draw for me.
Robin Farina
#60. The golden watch has become the other end of golden handcuffs. We now look at steady jobs as less of a goal and more of a necessary evil. They aren't fun; they simply fund our lives.
Jon Acuff
#61. Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.
Garry Kasparov
#62. The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.
Auguste Comte
#63. Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.
Bob Proctor
#64. To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
W. Clement Stone
#65. I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
Lamar Alexander
#66. Unsuccessful people carry their goals around in their head like marbles rattling around in a can, and we say a goal that is not in writing is merely a fantasy.
Darren Hardy
#67. When you write a goal down your subconscious brain begins to more actively think about bringing into your life the people, resources and knowledge you need to achieve your goals.
Ryan Allis
#68. Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.
Viggo Mortensen
#69. Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.
Bob Proctor
#70. A lot of times, I'll have a goal, I'll start writing, and I'll end up in some far off place, which is good. It's nice to have a focus, but letting the lyrics write themselves where they need to go is important.
James Hetfield
#71. (After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned.
Kyle Maynard
#72. Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#73. There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
Vash Young
#74. What is a goal without a purpose?
J.R. Rim
#75. Really, I'm never much of a goal-setter. Whenever I've tried to make big, solid plans, they don't happen. I'm more into whatever the circumstances are that present themselves, making wise decisions around that.
Rose McIver
#76. A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#77. I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.
Jack Gantos
#78. Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.
Sandor Marai
#79. You still need to save but being debt-free in retirement is and should be a goal.
Michelle Singletary
#80. Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#81. One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.
Alma Gluck
#82. The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be important, but the doing is intensely fulfilling, and it is the essence of enthusiasm.
Eckhart Tolle
#83. For me, Shambhala, you see, turned out to be not a goal but an absence. Not the discovery of a place but the act of leaving the futureless place where I was. And in the process I arrived at Constantinople.
Thomas Pynchon
#84. I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.
John Terry
#85. We need more people in this world, energised by chasing a quest or a goal and that is what will energise the world.
Tony Curl
#86. I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one, but I'm aiming for it!
Taylor Lautner
#87. A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.
Robbie Fowler
#88. Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said, "A goal without a plan is just a wish.
David Airey
#89. Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.
Arsene Wenger
#90. Success-minded people make a decision to achieve a goal and never have to make that decision again. They will be faced with a choice or some new circumstances to deal with, but the decision to achieve the goal is not in question. They have only to make adjustments along the way.
John Patrick Hickey
#91. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals.
Bob Proctor
#92. Discipline means choices. Every time you say yes to a goal or objective, you say no to many more.
Sybil Stanton
#93. The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal.
Yip Man
#94. Drawing attention to myself has never been a goal.
Alison Elliott
#95. My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#96. A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.
Old Tom Morris
#97. Achieving a goal is important, but what is more important is the distance that you have to travel with its ups and downs, fears and failures.
Debasish Mridha
#98. 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.
Dan Stevens
#99. Having a goal in your mind helps you manifest it in some way.
Steve Nash
#100. You can't have a goal without determination, because without the determination the goal will die.
Patrick L. Turner
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