Goal famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.
-- Don Williams -
Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.
-- Donald Barthelme -
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it
-- Donald Hall -
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.
-- Donald Hall -
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
-- Donald Hall -
A terrorist can attack at any time at any place using a range of techniques. It is physically impossible to defend at every time in every location against every conceivable technique of terrorism. Therefore, if your goal is to stop it, you cannot stop it by defense. You can only stop it by taking the battle to the terrorists, where they are and going after them.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
To get momentum, you must first focus on a specific goal with passion and intensity.
-- Donald Trump -
You have to stay focused. You cannot take your eye of your goal
-- Donald Trump -
What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!
-- Donald Trump -
Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.
-- Donald Tusk -
I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.
-- Donny Robinson -
I take action in the direction of my dreams, passions, talents, and interests. I know that I have a much-needed life purpose, which I embrace without delay. I focus only on today with respect to my goals, trusting that all of my tomorrows will work out well.
-- Doreen Virtue -
We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
-- Dorothy Day -
We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.
-- Dorothy Day -
The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.
-- Dorothy Height -
It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.
-- Dorothy Stratten -
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
-- Doug Larson -
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
-- Douglas Coupland -
I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.
-- Douglas Coupland -
A habit is good if it helps you achieve your goal; it is bad if it hinders your achievement.
-- Douglas Merrill -
I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama's life soon because I could play him. That's the goal. I watch all the addresses. Any time I see him on TV, I don't change the channel. I definitely pay attention and listen to the inflections of his voice. If you ask anyone who knows me, I'm pretty good at impressions.
-- Drake -
Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better
-- Drew Brees -
Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.
-- Drew Carey -
As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.
-- Drew Carey -
I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.
-- Duane G. Carey -
And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.
-- Duane G. Carey -
What we call creation science makes no reference to the Bible. It says there are two possible explanations for the origin of the universe and living things: theistic, supernatural creation by an intelligent being, or nontheistic, mechanistic evolutionary theory that posits no goal and no purpose in the evolutionary process. We just happen to be here.
-- Duane Gish -
The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.
-- Duff McDonald -
The goal with me, and the way I challenge myself as an actor, is to go from genre to genre. I like that. A lot of actors always challenge themselves. But for me the challenge lies not only in getting better, but going from drama to comedy to action or whatever the case may be, and having a wide array of movies in terms of my filmography.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
The goal [of mine] was always to work in as many different genres as I possibly could.
-- Dwayne Johnson -
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.
-- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche -
My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.
-- E. J. Hughes -
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.
-- E. L. Konigsburg -
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
-- E. O. Wilson -
Whether it's in in livability, transportation, or the environment, Portland is always leading the country. We have more to do before we achieve our goals, but we should all be encouraged by our progress and this recognition.
-- Earl Blumenauer -
To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.
-- Earl Nightingale -
Don't concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal - leave that completely to a power greater than yourself. All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.
-- Earl Nightingale -
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
-- Earl Nightingale -
One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.
-- Earl Nightingale -
Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality
-- Earl Nightingale -
Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
-- Earl Nightingale -
The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.
-- Eckhard Pfeiffer -
You get there by realizing you are already there.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Make sure your goals are dynamic, that is to say, point toward an activity that you are engaged in and through which you are connected to other human beings as well as to the whole. See yourself inspiring countless people with your work and enriching their lives. Feel yourself being an opening through which energy flows from the unmanifested Source of all life through you for the benefit of all.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
I think that if people look deeply enough into their trading patterns, they find that, on balance, including all their goals, they are really getting what they want, even though they may not understand it or want to admit it.
-- Ed Seykota -
I'm not much of a planner. I set a goal and there really is nothing else... no plan B.
-- Eddie Alvarez -
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.
-- Edgar Guest -
It matters not what goal you seek - its secret here reposes: you've got to dig from week to week - to get results on roses.
-- Edgar Guest -
I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
-- Edie Falco -
Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.
-- Edmund Vance Cooke -
The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing.
-- Eduard Bernstein -
Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.
-- Edward Bernays -
The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious
-- Edward F Edinger -
Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.
-- Edward Kennedy -
The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.
-- Edward McKendree Bounds -
The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime
-- Edward Tufte -
What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.
-- Edward Tufte -
My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.
-- Edward Whitacre, Jr. -
Too low they build who build below the skies.
-- Edward Young -
Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.
-- Edwin Conklin -
A dream doesn't become a goal until it is written
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
Losing more of our existing nuclear fleet will make it that much tougher to meet our carbon reduction goals. We need to keep ramping up renewables, but they can't meet our need for reliable power 24/7. Nuclear is a baseload source and it's carbon-free - two things we need.
-- Eileen Claussen -
The Lord, creator of life, has given us information to act upon that is guaranteed by him to guide us to our goal of life eternal.
-- Elaine A. Cannon -
Prepare now for the temple, the mountain of the Lord. Never allow the goal of the temple to be out of your sight. Walk into His presence in purity and virtue, and receive His blessings—even 'all that he hath.'
-- Elaine S. Dalton -
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
The goal is to rise spiritually, not simply to avoid sin.
-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos -
We have dedicated our lives, our blood, to the freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force can stop us from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the United States of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces.
-- Eldridge Cleaver -
The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.
-- Eleanor Holmes Norton -
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends. Such activity is not necessarily wrong or invalid.
-- Elena Kagan -
Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.
-- Eli Roth -
Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life-goal of illiterates. If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days
-- Elias Canetti -
I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.
-- Elie Saab -
Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war
-- Elie Wiesel -
If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!
-- Elisabeth Rohm -
The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.
-- Elisha Cuthbert -
When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!
-- Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler -
So this is the goal: To make money by increasing net profit, while simultaneously increasing return on investment, and simultaneously increasing cash flow.
-- Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.
-- Eliyahu M. Goldratt -
To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.
-- Elizabeth Blackwell -
'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Not to the curious or impatient soulThat in the start, demands the end be shown,And at each step, stops waiting for a sign;But to the tireless toiler toward the goal,Shall the great miracles of God be knownAnd life revealed, immortal and divine.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.
-- Ellen Bass -
We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.
-- Ellen Goodman -
When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?
-- Ellen Hopkins -
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.
-- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -
There is always a step small enough from where we are to get us to where we want to be. If we take that small step, there's always another we can take, and eventually a goal thought to be too far to reach becomes achievable.
-- Ellen Langer -
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 -
Be a mentor to others. Your most important legacy is preparing new leaders to carry on your goals.
-- Ellen Sauerbrey -
The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade .
-- Ellen Willis
