Top 99 Future Goal Quotes
#1. Mysterious power, whence hope ethereal springs!
Sweet heavenly relic of eternal things!
Inspiring oft deep thoughts of things divine:
The past, the present, and the future time.
Thy reminiscences transport the soul
To memory?s Paradise?its future goal.
Parley P. Pratt
#2. To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig
#3. The future goal is the thing which produces character in the present.
N. T. Wright
#4. The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.
Frances Mayes
#5. There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.
Indra Nooyi
#6. If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.
S. N. Goenka
#7. What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.
Lev Yashin
#8. Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.
Edgard Varese
#9. An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.
Ken Wyatt
#10. My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.
Chuck Palahniuk
#11. The politics of those whose goal is beyond time are always pacific; it is the idolaters of past and future, of reactionary memory and Utopian dream, who do the persecuting and make the wars.
Aldous Huxley
#12. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#13. A goal gives you the lens to see the future with clearer vision.
J.R. Rim
#14. 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
#15. It is the power of visualization that enables us to reach out toward the future, whether our goal is to bring down a mammoth, write a book, or set a new record time in a race.
Cameron Stracher
#16. Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly supported yet unable to fulfill all its promise; boasting remarkable advances but criticized for not serving more directly the goals of society.
J. Michael Bishop
#17. the goal of sustainable development is "to enable all people throughout the world to satisfy their basic needs and enjoy a better quality of life, without compromising the quality of life of future generations.
Krasimir Kirov
#18. None of us can help where we were scattered, Blue. But none of us has to remain where we were scattered.
Amy Harmon
#19. Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can achieve that goal will be the greatest challenge of the future. Indeed, it may well decide whether we have any future.
Arthur C. Clarke
#20. To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.
Peter Drucker
#21. With goals you can create the future in advance.
Tony Robbins
#22. It is not more bigness that should be our goal. We must attempt, rather, to bring people back to ... the warmth of community, to the worth of individual effort and responsibility ... and of individuals working together as a community, to better their lives and their children's future.
Robert Kennedy
#23. For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.
Barack Obama
#24. The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.
Junior Seau
#25. 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
#26. The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economy system.
Tim Kreider
#27. The best way to create a future is to set a goal and take action.
Debasish Mridha
#28. When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future.
Gretchen Rubin
#29. Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation - choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.
Ian Gawler
#30. If a person who grew up in an unhappy family cannot reprogram the sub consciousness he will not be able to create a strong marital union in the future
Sunday Adelaja
#31. A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of years in which her body can fill its biological function, is committing a kind of suicide.
Betty Friedan
#32. Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.
Zig Ziglar
#33. Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.
Jean Paul
#34. People who make growth their goal - instead of a title, position, salary, or other external target - always have a future.
John C. Maxwell
#36. The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill Cosby
#37. You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.
Simon Le Bon
#38. Man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear of this life have some meaning and goal in the future.
Alan W. Watts
#39. The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
Dorothy Height
#40. Money you won't need to use for at least seven years is money for investing. The goal here is to have your account grow over time to help you finance a distant goal, such as building a retirement fund. Since your goal is in the future, money for investing belongs in stocks.
Suze Orman
#41. We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal; at best it is a wish, and wishes are little more than self-delusion.
Jim Rohn
#42. If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.
Seth Godin
#43. Until you make a destiny defining decision, you can't move from where you are to the rightful place you should be.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#44. Sometimes we just have to suck it up and do what we have to do, until we are able to do what we want to do.
Mark W. Boyer
#45. We want Florida to be first for jobs, and we must have a skilled workforce to reach that goal. By investing in science, technology, engineering and math education, we are ensuring our students are prepared for the jobs of the future. Our teachers are essential to preparing our students.
Rick Scott
#46. It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
Ben Horowitz
#47. The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.
Adolf Hitler
#48. The goal of our actions is and will remain a sovereign and territorially intact Ukraine that can decide its own future.
Angela Merkel
#49. If you refuse to set a bold goal for your financial future, you're really setting a goal anyway: To keep things the way they are.
Randy Gage
#50. I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.
Beyonce Knowles
#51. Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.
John Yoo
#52. I'm encouraging young people to become social business entrepreneurs and contribute to the world, rather than just making money. Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.
Muhammad Yunus
#53. Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
Lao-Tzu
#54. The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its goal.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#55. Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future.
Nick Saban
#56. It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.
Karen Finerman
#58. Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.
Kim Dae-jung
#59. The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present
Paul Saffo
#60. I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!
Ken Hensley
#61. I never imagine myself as anything. I've never had a goal or any future vision at all. I just do what's in front of me.
Ian MacKaye
#62. I am a teacher at heart. My goal is to inspire and energize audiences with ideas and possibilities that will challenge them to expand their perceptions of teaching and learning and dare to consider our professional future with optimism and excitement.
David Warlick
#63. There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation
Jim Rohn
#64. 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
#65. Negative people offer no hope to the person who wants to pursue their goal. They are a hinder to positive thinking and plans for a brighter future.
Ellen J. Barrier
#66. This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#68. The barrier to our future is often the very plans that we've created to get there.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#69. Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.
Benazir Bhutto
#70. ... Turning the simple 'handjob' into something exquisitely erotic seems quite a reasonable goal."
Louise to Acacia, re her husbands immediate future, in Explicitly Sexy
Martin Rinehart
#71. My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.
Ralph Abraham
#72. We all wish to live a happy life. In addition, we all have the same right to fulfil this goal. And we all have the potential to do so for the simple reason that future is not fixed, it can be changed. Therefore, we should live in hope that we really can overcome whatever problems we face.
Dalai Lama
#73. If a child is loved, he feels worthy of love in the future
Sunday Adelaja
#74. People with victim mentality often do not have life purpose, because they do not know how to acquire them unless someone plans their future for them
Sunday Adelaja
#75. I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.
Tim Ferriss
#76. Kennedy saw the presidency as the vital center of government, and a president's primary goal as galvanizing commitments to constructive change. He aimed to move the country and the world toward a more peaceful future, not just through legislation but through inspiration.
Robert Dallek
#77. The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Albert Einstein
#78. If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.
L. Ron Hubbard
#79. All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian Tracy
#80. My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for the future of the country.
Mike Huckabee
#81. The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.
Jim Rohn
#82. I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That's a small goal, isn't it? That's something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that's in my future.
Jenni Rivera
#83. Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make
George Bernard Shaw
#84. You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis
#85. Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life.
Mark Victor Hansen
#86. We must be careful not to let our current appetites steal away any chance we might have for a future feast
Jim Rohn
#87. Those who wait for the future to happen before aligning their educational goals with the new realities will be left behind in the new ecomomy. A better path is to know what is ahead and prepare-this is education.
Oliver DeMille
#88. The line that we chart into our future is often more a circle that brings us back to our past. And it might be that there is some hidden intent in charting circles in that we can feel like we're moving when we actually have no intent of doing so.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#89. The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the future.
Alberto Villoldo
#90. Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
Marvin Minsky
#91. My goal as a parent is to prepare you for the future, not to make you like me.
Amy Chua
#92. The wisdom and goal of innovative CIOs are to help the organization think clearly about the two horizons of future, the short-term gain, and the long term win.
Pearl Zhu
#93. Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit.. so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.
Larry Page
#94. Our end goal is not a Christian America, either of the made-up past or the hoped-for future. Our end goal is the kingdom of Christ, made up of every tribe, tongue, nation, and language. We are, in Christ, the heirs of this kingdom.
Russell D. Moore
#95. We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good.
Marta Kristen
#96. Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.
Robert Kennedy
#97. When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives
Ellen MacArthur
#98. Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.
Brian Tracy
#99. actions required to accomplish a goal, it is an indication that they own their current comfort more than they own the future described in their vision.
Brian P. Moran
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