Top 83 Common Goal Quotes
#1. Our common goal should be the development of a system of equal security for all governments. System adequate [to deal with] modern threats, built on regional and global nonaligned bases. Only then can we ensure peace and tranquility in the world.
Vladimir Putin
#2. The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
Kofi Annan
#3. A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#4. When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making.
Henry Selick
#5. Each person has a specific mission in the world, but all human beings serve like cells in a single body, working together in the realization of a common goal.
Kabbalah Centre
#6. 30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.
Jack Ma
#7. And not only that but ... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal.
Umberto Guidoni
#8. Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
Bill Bradley
#9. The supposition that one sex needs the other's acquiescence in order to exist prevents both from moving together as self-defined persons toward a common goal.
Audre Lorde
#10. Everyone who goes after a dream is a competitor, and their goal is the win. Anyone who chooses to work together with others toward the pursuit of a common goal is part of a team at some level.
Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld
#11. There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.
Sandy Koufax
#12. We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed.
Bob Taft
#13. The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent.
Dick Vitale
#15. If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#16. Jesus had a common goal for everyone - but he approached every person differently.
Robert Logan
#17. Take a close look at a squat, barbell, or bodyweight - it makes no difference. Both the quadriceps and the hamstrings are working toward the common goal of standing up. The quads are extending the knees, and the hammies are extending the hips.
Pavel Tsatsouline
#19. A good team was simply a group of very disparate athletes who assembled each day from radically different lives and - with luck - for one shared moment put aside their differences, their dislikes, their egos and their rivalries, harnessing their energies towards a common goal.
David Halberstam
#20. Role-playing games are contests in which the players usually cooperate as a group to achieve a common goal rather than compete to eliminate one another from play ... Role games ... bring players together in a mutual effort ...
Gary Gygax
#21. I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.
Bear Bryant
#22. The United States, and the president's made this clear, does not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. That's a red line for us. And it's a red line obviously for the Israelis so we share a common goal here.
Leon Panetta
#23. Each alter personality had a common goal and raison d'etre, namely my survival. They didn't all realize that though, and so were at odds with each other much of the time. So I continued to be fragmented and divided.
Carolyn Bramhall
#24. If you do genuinely care about people and love them a little, eventually you all have this common goal about where you want to go. They see it, and they believe it, and they become believers with you, and you can achieve wonderful things.
Gerry Harvey
#25. Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
Larry Dixon
#26. I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.
Kathy Ireland
#27. If we make choices using Earth as the central standard, welfare as a common goal, and conscience as the absolute scale, even apparently complex changes may happen more quickly than we imagine.
Ilchi Lee
#28. We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language ... We have affection. We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at.
Lewis Thomas
#29. By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.
Kurt Eichenwald
#30. Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life.
Paul Strand
#31. On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Lou Holtz
#32. The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
Gabrielle Union
#33. In baseball you have individual responsibility, and if you fail it, you get an error. But at the same time, your focus is on the common goal of the team to win. This is part of what resonates with people about baseball. This is how they would like society to work.
Jed S. Rakoff
#34. I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.
Howard Shore
#35. We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws.
[Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]
Ovid
#36. 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.
Vaclav Klaus
#37. When I started to write 'Crazy Thing Called Love,' I wanted a conflict that would not only bring Billy and Maddy together in terms of proximity and give them a common goal but that would also drive a wedge between them. And nothing fit the bill quite like the arrival of some children.
Molly O'Keefe
#38. We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.
Marta Kristen
#39. Competition is not about fighting, it is all about helping each other to achieve a common goal.
Joey Lawsin
#40. Putting on the same jerseys doesn't make a team. You're still just a collection of individuals until you find a common goal.
Harry Sinden
#41. I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.
Steven Van Zandt
#42. I think when you're young and you get together with a group of guys who think like you and you start to make something that moves you as a group of people and you have a common goal, that's an exciting time.
Mark Lanegan
#43. The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.
Sarah MacLean
#44. Human race should have a common goal and that is to establish infinite peace in this world which we call home.
Debasish Mridha
#45. If you think peace is a common goal, that goes to show how little you know
Morrissey
#46. Monsters," he said slowly, "all want the same thing: to feed. They are united by that common goal, while you are all divided by your morals and your pride. What do I think? I think that if you cannot come together, you cannot win.
Victoria Schwab
#47. As a community, great things can happen when each individual contributes, according to their strengths, toward a common goal.
Idowu Koyenikan
#49. The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.
Dave DeBusschere
#50. Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.
William J. Clinton
#51. Each person has the potential to be good and productive, yet I also know that many people never begin to tap their true potential. It is human nature to surrender to the lowest common denominator. We must purposely strive to move ahead and achieve.
John Patrick Hickey
#52. Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.
Michael Chabon
#53. When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
Edmund Burke
#54. Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.
Ludwig Von Mises
#55. Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.
Tony Fernandes
#56. People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.
Tom Vilsack
#57. Assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain.
Robert Adams
#58. 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
#59. What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland.
Robert Pape
#60. The true goal of human activity was the creation of a world-wide community of awakened and intelligently creative persons, related by mutual insight and respect, and by the common task of fulfilling the potentiality of the human spirit on earth.
Olaf Stapledon
#61. Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.
Vaclav Klaus
#63. In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#64. Leadership is a process where a leader has a purpose oriented destination and lets the followers find the best way to get there with a common vision and goal.
Debasish Mridha
#65. I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.
Pat Conroy
#66. Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
Ken Hill
#67. The broader and higher aspects of life are international ... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.
Ameen Rihani
#68. Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man; but it is the enemy of greatness
Garrison Wynn
#69. The goal of work is not to gain wealth and possessions, but to serve the common good and bring glory to God.
Richard J. Foster
#70. We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue ... that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,
Alain J. P. Belda
#71. The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
Ike Skelton
#72. A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator.
Yehuda Berg
#73. The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.
Richard Trumka
#74. The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.
Olaf Stapledon
#75. 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.
Ernest Istook
#76. The goal of federal regulations should be to promote health and safety, but regulatory enforcement must be balanced with common-sense policies and assistance for businesses.
James Lankford
#77. The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.
Hilma Wolitzer
#78. Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.
James Hunter
#79. We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
#80. True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
C.S. Lewis
#81. The MDGs have been a fundamental framework for global development. A clear agenda, with measurable goals and targets, and a common vision have been crucial for this success. There is now an expectation around the world that sooner, rather than later, all these goals can and must be achieved.
Sha Zukang
#82. No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
Madeleine Albright
#83. Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.
William J. Clinton
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