Goal famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Focus on what it is that you want, set a realistic goal. Start setting goals that you feel you can accomplish. Don't try to go right to the top in one leap. Every time you accomplish a goal you develop the strength and wisdom to accomplish the next one.
-- Chuck Norris -
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 -
[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
It takes a person with a mission to succeed.
-- Clarence Thomas -
The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.
-- Claude Bernard -
The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end
-- Claude M. Bristol -
I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.
-- Claudia Schiffer -
The great tension in media has always been that freedom and quality are conflicting goals.
-- Clay Shirky -
Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.
-- Clayton Christensen -
At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.
-- Cliff Stearns -
Every great accomplishment starts with a first step. No matter how big your goals are. No matter how great your plans are. No matter how immense your dreams are. It all begins with a single step. Take that step today!
-- Clifton Anderson -
Just do your best. I find that if I set that goal for myself and no one else, I feel good.
-- Cobie Smulders -
We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health
-- Colin Blakemore -
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it
-- Confucius -
Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.
-- Cory Lidle -
It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.
-- Craig Reucassel -
People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.
-- Curtis W. Fentress -
The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind.
-- Cyndi Lee -
We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity is meaningful, profound, worth living and dying for.... If we devote our lives to frivolity, the world will be a far, far better place. Humanity will be better able to fulfill its primary goal, that of having a good time.
-- Cynthia Heimel -
The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
There's no such thing as an ugly goal. Ugly is to not score one.
-- Dada Maravilha -
My goal is to become a singer that delivers happiness to people.
-- Daesung -
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.
-- Dalai Lama -
I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way
-- Dalai Lama -
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 -
To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.
-- Dalai Lama -
It is our basic right to be a happy person, happy family, and eventually a happy world. That should be our goal.
-- Dalai Lama -
A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.
-- Dalai Lama -
Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal,
-- Dale Carnegie -
It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.
-- Dale Rex Coman -
...When a choice will make a real difference in our lives—obvious or not—and when we are living in tune with the Spirit and seeking his guidance, we can be sure we will receive the guidance we need to attain our goal.
-- Dallin H. Oaks -
I don't like making didactic, pedagogical documentaries based on standard formulas of narration: I'm only interested in the ambitious French tradition of the documentaire de création where the film, if successful, is not about something but that something itself. The goal is to incorporate areas of risk and paradox that we associate with cinematic art.
-- Damian Pettigrew -
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
-- Damien Hirst -
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 -
If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one’s existence, if one does not use the mind to it’s fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess. True happiness involves the pursuit of worthy goals. Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.
-- Dan Buettner -
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.
-- Dan Buettner -
It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
-- Dan Deacon -
The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.
-- Dan Gable -
Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.
-- Dan John -
Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?
-- Dan John -
The fruit of the Spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce - it is the Holy Spirit through us who produces fruit.
-- Dan Kimball -
I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
-- Dan Marino -
The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges as a numeral. This points in the direction of a definition of abstraction: when we abstract we voluntarily ignore details of a context, so that we can accomplish a goal.
-- Dan Meyer -
No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.
-- Dan Miller -
Process transforms any journey into a series of small steps, taken one by one, to reach any goal. Process transcends time, teaches patience, rests on a solid foundation of careful preparation, and embodies trust in our unfolding potential.
-- Dan Millman -
We are here to live moment by moment, and each moment brings a task, a challenge, a goal. It's good to have big goals, but we need to connect the dots between where we are and where we are going, one day, one moment at a time.
-- Dan Millman -
Catholic dioceses typically spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recklessly, then filed for bankruptcy. The goal was to avoid the money going to the hands of victims of predator priests.
-- Dan Rather -
I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
-- Dan Stevens -
The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality.
-- Dane Rudhyar -
My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
-- Danica Patrick -
So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.
-- Danica Patrick -
Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms
-- Daniel Boone -
I think that gulf is what makes the work interesting, but as a creator it's endlessly frustrating because I'm starting out with this goal, this thing I'm trying to create, and then the thing I actually do create is very, very different. It's always painful, in some ways, especially when it's just finished.
-- Daniel Clowes -
Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine.
-- Daniel Cormier -
If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in here with a goal, and that's to get better.
-- Daniel Cormier -
No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.
-- Daniel Cormier -
The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It is a primal motivating force, and its absence is paralyzing.
-- Daniel Goleman -
Goals may cause systematic problems for organizations due to narrowed focus, unethical behavior, increased risk taking, decreased cooperation, and decreased intrinsic motivation. Use care when applying goals in your organization.
-- Daniel H. Pink -
The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.
-- Daniel Pipes -
Americans are quite skeptical about the goal of promoting democracy. People feel it's a desirable goal, but, from a commonsense point of view, both Republicans and Democrats have come to the conclusion that democracy is something that countries can only come to on their own.
-- Daniel Yankelovich -
As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.
-- Daniela Hantuchova -
My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.
-- Daniela Ruah -
I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.
-- Daniele Bolelli -
Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.
-- Danielle Fotopoulos -
If your goals aren’t synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won’t matter much.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
It's not about the goal, it's about how you want to feel when you get there.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
The foundation of a good relationship with intentions & goals is keeping in mind that the primary aim of setting and working toward them is to feel the way you want to feel.
-- Danielle LaPorte -
My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.
-- Danny Strong -
I think real true success is when, yes, you have reached the goal, reached yours, but it's how many others you have helped along the way.
-- Darrell Green -
I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.
-- Darren Criss -
If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way.
-- Darren LaCroix -
When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.
-- Darren McCarty -
I know you define leads by goals having the lead, but we never really had the lead.
-- Darryl Sutter -
That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible
-- Daryl Hannah -
Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.
-- Dave Ramsey -
You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.
-- Dave Ramsey -
How you handle or mishandle your money tells us who you are and, more important, it tells YOU who you are. Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money. Your value system, or lack of one causes money to flow around you, passed you, or to you. When money is in your possession, what you do with it screams loudly who you are.
-- Dave Ramsey -
Goals are visions and dreams with work clothes on.
-- Dave Ramsey -
I believe we can prevent or delay most disease until the 9th or 10th decade. The goal is to prevent anything that can affect your quality of life prior to those years! By the time many of us get to the 9th or 10th decade, who knows where the new medical and science will take us? I am an optimist!
-- David Agus -
The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.
-- David Allen -
Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.
-- David Bach -
Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much
-- David Bayles -
Understand that this art has been created by few soldiers in Vietnam to escape or reach: and this is the spirit I'd like parkour to keep. You have to make the difference between what is useful and what is not in emergency situations. Then you'll know what is parkour and what is not. So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.
-- David Belle -
So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.
-- David Belle -
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always the goal - to be a novelist, not a screenwriter. And I think, again, if I didn't have the novels, maybe I'd be much more frustrated by not having directed yet.
-- David Benioff -
It's almost inherent, but I'm a massive [Stanley] Kubrick fan. I'm a big admirer of what guys like Christopher Nolan have been able to do. For me, to be able to try to make big films that reach a lot of people, and that hopefully have something to say, is a lofty goal, but that's my goal.
-- David Brooks -
I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that's their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.
-- David Cook -
Until you accept total responsibility - no matter what - you won't be able to put plans in place to accomplish your goals.
-- David Cottrell -
My goal was to show the history of the end of the Cold War through both sides - the U.S. side and the Soviet side. I really felt that especially the Soviet side of the story hadn't been well told because we didn't know.
-- David E. Hoffman -
Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most.
-- David Easton -
My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full complement of species, returning throughout the world.
-- David Foreman
