Goal famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.
-- Bryce Harper -
My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.
-- Bubba Watson -
If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
-- Bud Wilkinson -
When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.
-- Burl Ives -
Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost
-- Burt Rutan -
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
-- C. K. Prahalad -
True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.
-- C. S. Lewis -
True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
-- C. S. Lewis -
For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.
-- C. Wagner -
Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.
-- C.D. Wright -
I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
-- Cameron Mackintosh -
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached my original goal. Again and again I was enticed by the frequently interesting prospects from one direction to the other, sometimes even by will-o'-the-wisps, as is not rare in mathematic speculations.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.
-- Carl Jung -
We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a way which keeps the world together and that achieves our goal which is removing the... defanging Saddam..
-- Carl Levin -
Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals
-- Carl Lewis -
I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
-- Carl Lewis -
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
-- Carl Sagan -
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things-from subatomic particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.
-- Carl Sagan -
My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.
-- Carlos Beltran -
Here's the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.
-- Carlos Pena, Jr. -
Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.
-- Carlos Slim -
It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal
-- Carol Alt -
Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life.
-- Caroline Myss -
It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.
-- Carolyn Porco -
I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.
-- Carson Kressley -
I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.
-- Cat Cora -
Hang onto that goal and you do what you have to do to make it happen.
-- Cat Zingano -
Feminism, Socialism, and Communism are one in the same, and Socialist/Communist government is the goal of feminism.
-- Catharine MacKinnon -
The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note that the word 'rich' means having an abundance of good or living a fuller, more satisfying life. Indeed, you are prosperous to the degree that you are experiencing peace, health, happiness and plenty in your world. There are honorable methods that can carry you quickly toward that goal. It is easier to accomplish than you may now think. That, too, is the shocking truth about prosperity.
-- Catherine Ponder -
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 -
I encourage everybody and challenge everybody to strive towards their goals. . . . There will be ups and there will be downs, but just keep working towards them and don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it.
-- Catriona Le May Doan -
If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.
-- Cecil Taylor -
You have to dream big, wish hard and chase after your goals, because no one is going to do it for you.
-- Cee Lo Green -
I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.
-- Cee Lo Green -
In my lifetime, I've come to realize that you can't depend upon other people for what you want. You can't be scared to go out and get it. You have to dream big, wish hard & chase after your goals, because no one is going to do it for you.
-- Cee Lo Green -
I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.
-- Celine Dion -
Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations.
-- Cesar Millan -
It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.
-- Cesar Millan -
You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.
-- Chad Channing -
To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.
-- Chantal Kreviazuk -
Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.
-- Charice Pempengco -
My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.
-- Charles A. Reich -
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
-- Charles Caldwell Ryrie -
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
-- Charles de Lint -
My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.
-- Charles Edison -
The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.
-- Charles J. Givens -
The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.
-- Charles J. Givens -
Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.
-- Charles M. Vest -
Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
-- Charles R. Schwab -
We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.
-- Charles R. Swindoll -
The way I write is very much without kind of a goal. I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go, I don't know what the movie is going to do or what the screenplay is going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
I want to direct films, ultimately. Hopefully I'll have a fantastic career in acting and then go on to do that. That's my dream; that's the ultimate goal.
-- Charlie Rowe -
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -
Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
Sometimes the best way to uncover a new goal or dream is to step back, make space, and allow what's next to find you.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
-- Chester Carlson -
Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.
-- Chip Conley -
My goal is to be able to play wherever my team needs me.
-- Chris Bosh -
We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.
-- Chris Bowen -
The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.
-- Chris Brogan -
I believe it's time to put our best ideas on the table and work toward a bipartisan solution, with the single goal of leaving the Social Security system stronger than we found it.
-- Chris Chocola -
...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.
-- Chris Colfer -
I was always in bands before, but on 'American Idol,' it was about getting my voice out there. It was always my goal, though, to get a band together again.
-- Chris Daughtry -
Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.
-- Chris Daughtry -
Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
-- Chris Evert -
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
-- Chris Hadfield -
There's really just one thing I can control: my attitude during the journey, which is what keeps me feeling steady and stable, and what keeps me headed in the right direction. So I consciously monitor and correct, if necessary, because losing attitude would be far worse than not achieving my goal.
-- Chris Hadfield -
The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.
-- Chris Hardwick -
The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.
-- Chris Martin -
The goal of the Christian is not to become like Jesus; because as He is, so are we in this world.
-- Chris Oyakhilome -
Find your spirit, and no challenge will keep you from achieving your goals.
-- Chris Penn -
To go to the Oscars for Moneyball - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.
-- Chris Pratt -
The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.
-- Chris Prentiss -
If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.
-- Chris Prentiss -
Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive.
-- Chris Sharma -
Don't think OF your goals, think FROM them.
-- Chris Weidman -
Being scared is normal. My technique for erasing it is facing it. Be afraid and brave. Be nervous and courageous. The first few minutes of being scared is your test to see if you're really serious about reaching a goal. Push through anxiety and come out victorious. Fear is just a test. Honor the feeling. Know it's there. Know it's temporary. Face it to erase it.
-- Chrisette Michele -
The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
-- Chrissie Hynde -
I go out of my way to try not to be too annoying... my biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride.
-- Chrissy Teigen -
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
-- Christiaan Barnard -
There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.
-- Christian Bale -
The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant.
-- Christina Romer -
If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.
-- Christina Romer -
What is the beginning? Love. What is the course. Love still. What the goal. The goal is love.
-- Christina Rossetti -
Honestly, on so many levels, I feel like motherhood has prepared me even better for directing than film school because all it is is troubleshooting and dealing with different personalities and emotions and trying to make everybody happy and at the end of the day reaching your own personal goals and agendas.
-- Christine Swanson -
I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.
-- Christopher -
I truly feel that if you understand yourself and set goals without the regulations and limitations others put on you, then nothing is impossible.
-- Christopher -
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
-- Christopher Columbus -
Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.
-- Christopher Columbus -
Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.
-- Christopher Dodd -
What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.
-- Christopher Lambert -
It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.
-- Christopher Pike -
My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.
-- Chuck Grassley -
My whole goal in my film career is to project a positive image on the screen, that I hope people will enjoy watching.
-- Chuck Norris -
There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one.
-- Chuck Norris
