Top 100 The Goal Quotes
#1. It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.
Theodore Roosevelt
#2. The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.
Scotty Bowman
#3. Don't be like me. Be better than me. That's the goal.
Michael Jordan
#4. [?] Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Anonymous
#5. We have not yet reached the goal but ... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Herbert Hoover
#6. Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.
Maurice Saatchi
#8. People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.
Israel Gelfand
#9. Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.
Muhammad Ali
#10. The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.
Chase Utley
#11. The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
Damien Hirst
#12. The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
Abram L. Sachar
#13. The goal, Karel said, was not to tell explicit lies but to destroy the distinction between the true and the false, so that lying becomes neither necessary nor possible.
Roger Scruton
#14. In scriptures, there is knowledge about the different methods; the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul] is not there. 'Gnani' has the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul]. Knowledge about the goal, which is the Soul, is obtained as a result of the 'Gnani's' grace.
Dada Bhagwan
#15. The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.
Bryan Kest
#16. In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.
Joseph Campbell
#17. The goal in life is to discover that you've always been where you were supposed to be.
Aldous Huxley
#18. The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
F. W. De Klerk
#19. The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.
Mike Johanns
#20. As marriage goes, I think most people sort of set being - you know getting married as the goal as opposed to being married.
Ashton Kutcher
#21. The goal in life is to live young, have fun, and arrive at your final destination - as late as possible - with a smile on your face, because this would mean that you truly enjoyed the ride.
Jon Gordon
#22. The goal is not to impress customers with knowledge. The goal is to leave customers feeling special and to enrich their lives.
Carmine Gallo
#23. You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That's when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That's what I urge people to try to do. It's very important to be in your body.
Jane Fonda
#24. Do not lose focus because of small wins or temporary set-backs. You can only score if you keep your eyes on the ball and be certain of where you want to place it even if you are not in physical sight of the goal. Visualise the dream but never take your eyes off the dynamic plan of action.
Archibald Marwizi
#26. We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American businesses. Thirty-five percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don't leave. The goal is to help the middle class.
Lindsey Graham
#27. The goal of a life is not to provide material for good stories.
Tim Kreider
#28. In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net.
Orhan Pamuk
#29. The goal of the martial arts is not for the destruction of an opponent, but rather for self-growth and self-perfection. The practice of a martial art should be a practice of love - for the preservation of life, for the preservation of body, and for the preservation of family and friends.
Dan Inosanto
#30. He just got his body between himself and the goal.
Ray Clemence
#31. The goal is to build the muscle memory for your child to instinctively ask themselves key questions before making a purchase.
Holly D. Reid
#32. That I may know Him, was the goal of his heart, and to this he sacrificed everything.
A.W. Tozer
#33. We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.
Vladimir Putin
#34. Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.
Torrey Smith
#35. For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.
Rajneesh
#36. But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.
Albert Einstein
#37. In many ways, my job in soccer was like my job in basketball now. I had to protect the goal. That was the name of the game, not letting the other team score.
Hakeem Olajuwon
#38. In the West, opinions, perceptions, loyalties, and, ultimately, votes are what matter when the goal is to change public policy-or for that matter, cultural patterns. Serious inquiry and questions of truth are often a mere diversion.
Barbara Forrest
#39. I try to break a sweat every day. It doesn't always happen that way, but that's the goal.
Rebecca Romijn
#40. The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
Miroslav Volf
#41. He who takes his eyes off the goal has a good chance of not scoring!" - Allan Rufus -
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Allan Rufus
#42. You can't make a woman happy. That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness.
Wanda Sykes
#43. website optimization, which is the art and science of enhancing the user experience of a website with the goal of converting users into customers. To see why this is important, you need to become
Richard Stokes
#44. Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it.
Gautama Buddha
#45. People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
Elon Musk
#46. I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in accepting any job. This way, I can really work and dedicate myself to the institution for achieving the goal which I believe is a noble one.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#47. The goal is not to be delivered of your problem only but to be an instrument of God
Sunday Adelaja
#48. I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family.
Robert Downey Jr.
#49. The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
Andy Stanley
#51. The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.
Barry B. Longyear
#52. The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.
Jean Stapleton
#53. Silvestre has had the whites of the goal in his eyes ever since ...
Ian Darke
#54. Sometimes our journeys in life seem to take forever to get to the culmination of our efforts - to achieving the goal. And once we do, it goes so fast and then it's over.
K. Bromberg
#55. Retirement is not the goal of a surrendered life, because it competes with God for the primary attention of our lives.
Rick Warren
#56. The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more ... with a method linked only to my thought ... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless.
Pablo Picasso
#57. The goal of revelation is not information only, but affection, worship, and obedience. Christ in us will be realized only as we drink deeply of the Bible, which is God's word outside of us.
Kevin DeYoung
#58. [ ... ] The goal of Communism and the New World Order always has been the destruction of family. This forces people to get their sense of belonging from the elite-run media, political causes or products.
Henry Makow
#59. I love doing stuff that I haven't done before. That's the goal: To keep reinventing myself.
Shia Labeouf
#60. People always ask me, how do you teach core values? The answer is, you don't. The goal is not to get people to share your core values. It's to get people who already share your core values.
Robert Spector
#61. The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.
Howard G. Hendricks
#62. 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
#64. The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.
Alfred North Whitehead
#65. Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before
Herodotus
#66. And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.
Todd Barry
#67. When once we are freed from the goal [of solving problems], the question of whether it is a positive approach or a negative approach does not even arise.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#69. Is this the only goal of our life? Joy is not the goal; it is the square one of your life.
Jeetendra Jain
#70. There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too.
Nicole Beharie
#71. Since the opposition (shadow) is capable of preventing the audience (hero) from achieving success, the goal of a business narrative is to defeat the opposition (shadow).
Luis Cubero
#72. Chefs don't become chefs just to earn stars - that's not the goal.
Alain Ducasse
#73. I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
John F. Kennedy
#74. When the goal seems difficult to reach, take a break but never give up.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#75. I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians ... if we were given that opportunity.
Jack Layton
#76. The story of a marriage was an excellent way to fulfill the goal of discussing class without discussing class, and to tell an audience that they were upwardly mobile.
Jeanine Basinger
#77. Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!
Kevin Durant
#78. Every time you feel great anger, stop and write down who or what caused your feelings and why you reacted so angrily. The goal is to get to the root of the anger. Only when you understand the source can you find a solution.
Arun Gandhi
#79. The fact is, there can be no true evangelization without the Eucharist. It's not simply that the Eucharist is the context in which evangelization unfolds or even the goal of evangelization. It's the content of evangelization. It's what we
Scott Hahn
#80. God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
M. Scott Peck
#81. The goal of Sunday is to leave my home as little as possible.
Mark Morris
#82. Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.
Joss Whedon
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.
Jeffrey Tucker
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. We never give more honour to Jesus than when we honour his Mother, and we honour her simply and solely to honour him all the more perfectly. We go to her only as a way leading to the goal we seek - Jesus, her Son.
Louis De Montfort
#94. Whenever perfection becomes the goal, it becomes the enemy of progress.
Amy Pendergrass
#95. You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany ... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.
Helmut Kohl
#96. More important than success is the individual who strives towards his goal. It is the effort which counts. The goal is just a finish line - it accomplishes there and its happiness short lived.
Amit Abraham
#97. The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.
Robert Grudin
#98. In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.
John Allen Fraser
#100. He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the darkness of matter and is unmanifested. He is knowledge, He is the object of knowledge, and He is the goal of knowledge. He is situated in everyone's heart.
Anonymous
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