Top 100 Goal Quotes
#1. Meditation is not about getting rid of all your thoughts; it's learning not to get so lost in them that you forget what your goal is. Don't worry if your focus isn't perfect when meditating. Just practice coming back to the breath, again and again.
Kelly McGonigal
#2. Our body is designed to work for reaching a set goal
Sunday Adelaja
#3. Tolerence ought to be humanities community and knowledge should be an individuals goal.
Clarrissa Lee Moon
#4. The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
Pat Metheny
#5. Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.
Pattiann Rogers
#6. Let me make our goal ... very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs ... Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American workers is good for America.
Ronald Reagan
#7. I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'
Joe Manchin
#8. To remain conscious and continent was her new goal.
Louise Penny
#9. Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.
Ava DuVernay
#10. It's very difficult to get any footage of yourself doing what you love unless you have a friend who's a photographer or videographer and wants to document you. That was really the idea and the goal from the beginning: to help people get a good photo, and then it was to help people get a good video.
Nick Woodman
#12. If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.
John H. Johnson
#13. If you really want to find your voice, your goal is to journey toward inner wholeness
which is what life is about anyway. It involves self-acceptance and genuine self-respect.
from Unleash the Writer Within
Cecil Murphey
#14. My goal is to be the most magical person you know. I say that all the time, because it's an idea that really does shape my daily life. But you might not have met me, or maybe you aren't familiar with me at all. Still, I know that you have a person who has given you that feeling.
Stephen Lovegrove
#15. Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.
Fred DeLuca
#16. Always had the thought I could attract abundance. When I wrote the book Your Erroneous Zones back in the '70s, I absolutely knew the book was going to do well, but it wasn't a goal at all. I just went out there and started doing something I really loved.
Wayne Dyer
#17. Always ask yourself the question Is this going to help get me to my goal or not?
Bob Proctor
#18. I wanted to be a genetic engineer. That was my goal in college. I wanted to figure out what the codon sequence was that causes replication in a cardio myopathic virus. That was my goal.
Ashton Kutcher
#19. I like to score a proper goal, you know - a passing move.
Thierry Henry
#20. Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
#21. My ultimate goal is to be the best player in the world. If I'm the best player in the world, I'll be the face of American golf. It will come with the territory. That's where I want to be. If I want to be there, I have a lot of guys I have to beat out, in the U.S. and the world.
Rickie Fowler
#22. Life is about finding yourself. Finding yourself is about finding your ultimate goal, ultimate passion.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.
Lynne Stewart
#24. That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
Taylor Dayne
#25. The devil's overriding goal is to block God's work - and if he can convince you God doesn't really love you, or that you can't fully trust Him, then he has blocked God's work in your life and achieved his goal.
Billy Graham
#26. Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be ... a goal of reporters today.
John Ensign
#27. Sometimes it's hard to take everyday concerns seriously when you think about vanished ecosystems that existed 300 million years ago and were eradicated by giant explosions. My goals haven't changed, because my goal has always been to save the world!
Annalee Newitz
#28. My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.
Jason Mraz
#29. Our object is the economic freedom of the producing classes; this ultimate goal will be attained after a long and bitter struggle; therefore, our primary task is to organize the masses and lead them in the struggle for economic freedom.
M. N. Roy
#30. Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#31. When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you're after.
Bill Crawford
#32. You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.
Stephen King
#33. When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
Jack Canfield
#34. My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read!
Tuula Kallioniemi
#35. I am alone; make me your single goal --
My presence is sufficient for your soul;
I am your God, your one necessity --
With every breath you breathe, remember Me.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#36. Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
Thomas S. Monson
#37. My thoughts were to become a dentist when I first went to Albany State. I didn't know where I would end up, but I knew I'd be happy, and I knew I would have a nice life. That was always my goal, to have a nice, happy life. That's, to me, being rich.
Steve Guttenberg
#39. Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
Dogen
#40. Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
J.I. Packer
#41. Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.
William Zinsser
#42. Making college affordable is a really important goal, and my plan will work better than Senator [Bernie] Sanders' plan by everybody who has looked at it.
Hillary Clinton
#43. The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.
Evgeny Morozov
#44. A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.
Herman Edwards
#45. My primary goal is always to tell a story that will resonate with people on a deeply emotional level.
Chris Milk
#46. My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'
Rashida Jones
#47. In our relentless pursuit of the almighty A and the perfect GPA, something got lost - learning. Grades became the be-all and end-all, the goal itself, not an indicator of achieving the goal of learning. Grades have become the commodity, the badge of success and smarts, the ticket to college.
Cathy Vatterott
#48. A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
Timothy Ferriss
#49. I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.
Jillian Medoff
#50. You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.
Gregory Peck
#51. President Obama has been very clear as he laid out the goal, and the objective is to close Guantanamo.
Cliff Sloan
#52. Today's businesses can't just use social media; they have to become social businesses, inside and out and from top to bottom. Ultimately, that is the goal of this book: to harness the power of being a social business to become the most highly recommended organization in your industry/category/niche.
Paul M. Rand
#53. The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and powerful intention and feeling will, on its own, slide right out of you - out of your spirit.
Alex Ebert
#54. With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.
Teju Cole
#56. My goal, whenever entering a project, is always to gain 12 pounds.
Bob Odenkirk
#57. If at war, understand what it takes to win: Set a goal, define victory and fully support the effort. Leave no doubt that you respect the troops and appreciate their service.
Brad Wenstrup
#58. This exaggerated power comes not from the size of Natick's research budget, which is relatively small, but from the simple fact of having an overarching goal, a long-term plan, and relentless focus - which, come to think of it, may be the three traits in life most important to making things happen.
Anastacia Marx De Salcedo
#59. Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.
Ray Lewis
#60. Just before bedtime prayers, evaluate each day. Make plans for tomorrow that will move you toward your long-range goal. Strive for a close partnership with God in making your dreams come true.
Florence S. Jacobsen
#61. Celebrate each accomplishment on your way to reaching your goal. Each challenge conquered whether large or small is a positive step to greatness.
Robert Cheeke
#62. The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#63. When it is all about winning, once you've done it, you lose interest; stay focus on helping/developing young people as your long-term goal.
Bradford Winters
#64. I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.
Aaron Sorkin
#65. This is why I am continuing my travels - not to seek other, better teachings, for I know there are none, but to depart from all teachings and all teachers and to reach my goal by myself or to die.
Hermann Hesse
#67. My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.
Kanye West
#68. For me photography is just a way to collect material to realize the ideas in my mind. I get inspired by things around me in my daily life and all kinds of things I see. Every new project is a new challenge and my goal is to realize them as realistic as possible.
Erik Johansson
#69. I want to make a film that is commercially successful because that means that the larger cinema-going audience around the world like the movie, which is my goal. That's my job, to make films that people respond to.
Neill Blomkamp
#70. My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.
Susun Weed
#71. Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.
Richard Benyo
#72. Once I was liable to the same mistakes, but, thanks to God, no longer ... '
Well, isn't it just as worthwhile to have devoted and applied yourself to this goal as to have read or written fifty pages?
Epictetus
#73. The past isn't going to get you to your goal.
Junior Seau
#74. Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.
Noam Chomsky
#75. It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am. And my goal is that at those most precarious of moments, what you will see is Jesus holding you through my tears.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#76. I come up short when I create music I don't like. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the goal is to perfect your craft and create your own sound.
Nikka Costa
#77. The goal of a church is not to have a bigger building or budget but to see the word of God increase and disciples multiply
Kevin DeYoung
#78. The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money.
S.A. Tawks
#79. Our new strategic plan emphasizes the importance of providing access to records anytime, anywhere. This is one of many initiatives that we are launching to make our goal a reality.
Allen Weinstein
#80. To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova
#81. Happiness is temporary and fleeting ... Joy is the right goal.
Guy Kawasaki
#82. People who score zero are not only those who do not participate in the game, but also those who play very well but have no goal in focus!
Israelmore Ayivor
#83. Victory with honor and integrity is the real goal of sport. Sometimes it happens that others are better than you. I could never beat Carl Lewis in a hundred-yard dash, but my victory might be in running faster today than I did yesterday.
Don Sparks
#85. All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose and by means of God's order which, in its great variety, is in us all.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#86. The goal of life is to take everything that made you weird as a kid and get people to pay you money for it when you're older.
David Freeman
#87. I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.
Gerald R. Ford
#88. I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.
Sarah Dessen
#89. Replace a goal of obedience with one of connection and trust instead. Children are drawn to follow those to whom they are emotionally connected. By parenting not for obedience but for relationship, kids are naturally inclined to follow your lead.
Kelly Bartlett
#90. Every memorial in its time has a different goal.
Maya Lin
#91. One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.
Philip Kitcher
#92. Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
Larry Dixon
#93. The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.
Esme Raji Codell
#94. Logan must survive. That is the only truth. The only goal. My sole mission.
Siobhan Davis
#95. You have to have something to love. Something to fight for to make living a goal instead of a job.
Penelope Douglas
#96. Running is something you just do. You don't need a goal. You don't need a race. You don't need the hype of a so-called fitness craze. All you need is a cheap pair of shoes and some time; the rest will follow.
Ted Corbitt
#97. The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
Jeffrey Tucker
#98. Art is a social object, books and films and records and television shows, they're social objects that bring people together in conversation. I love the notion that I could write something that two people could share. That's the goal.
Graham Moore
#99. In reality, the vagina is not a game of soccer to be kicked around like a ball. Its goal is to love and not keep score of how many times it's beaten the competition. Having a vagina is a beautiful thing and shouldn't be locked up or controlled by those who do not have one.
Sadiqua Hamdan
#100. Your 'Ideal Parallel World' must be so grand that if you told it to 99% of your friends, they would laugh - some because they would think you were joking and some because they would think the goal impossible.
Kevin Michel
