Goal famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.
-- Elliott Abrams -
Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.
-- Elliott Erwitt -
What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.
-- Elsie de Wolfe -
And that's Aston Villa's first league goal since their last one.
-- Elton Welsby -
And now the goals from Carrow Road, where the game finished 0-0.
-- Elton Welsby -
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.
-- Emil Zatopek -
Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.
-- Emil Zatopek -
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
-- Emile Durkheim -
To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.
-- Eminem -
My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.
-- Emma Stone -
Reese Witherspoon is my everywoman. She's managed to have a family and this amazing career. That's the goal.
-- Emmanuelle Chriqui -
Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Our goal should be health and stamina.
-- Emme -
A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether its on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software.
-- Emmett Shear -
Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.
-- Emraan Hashmi -
The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.
-- Eric Butterworth -
On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and being.
-- Eric Butterworth -
A good goal is one that is important and beautiful.
-- Eric Cantona -
Whatever happens, there are always things you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have done better. You score two goals and you usually feel you could have scored a third. That's perfectionism. That's what makes you progress in life.
-- Eric Cantona -
We expect to make about 500,000-600,000 more. Our initial goal was one million, but in reality we will probably make a bit less.
-- Eric Friedman -
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
-- Eric Hoffer -
With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.
-- Eric Metaxas -
If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.
-- Eric Ries -
Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build - the thing customers want and will pay for - as quickly as possible.
-- Eric Ries -
The goal of every startup experiment is to discover how to build a sustainable business around that vision.
-- Eric Ries -
I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind, that I am not a good enough thinker. It never occurred to me that the source of my unhappiness is not flawed thinking but thinking itself.
-- Eric Weiner -
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 -
Success is not just the crowning moment, the spiking of the ball in the end zone or the raising of the flag on the summit. It is the whole process of reaching for a goal and, sometimes, it begins with failure.
-- Erik Weihenmayer -
My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.
-- Erin Cummings -
America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.
-- Ernest Istook -
It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.
-- Ernest Nagel -
Know what you want to do - then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.
-- Ernestine Schumann-Heink -
Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.
-- Ernst Junger -
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.
-- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -
Seconds of focused pleasureable visualization is stronger than 2000 hours of working to obtain a goal
-- Esther Hicks -
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. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.
-- Eugen Herrigel -
Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be pursued with deadly hatred. The goal of Judaism of today is: a merciless campaign against all German peoples and the complete destruction of the nation. We demand a complete blockade of trade, the importation of raw materials stopped, and retaliation towards every German, woman and child.
-- Eugene M. Kulischer -
Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?
-- Eugenio Maria de Hostos -
My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.
-- Evander Holyfield -
The Millennium Development Goals are owned by the people.
-- Eveline Herfkens -
When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.
-- Evelyn Lauder -
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 -
Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
The Bolivian government has promised to guarantee autonomy in the framework of unity, legality, and with the goal of equalizing the different regions of Bolivia. It's right there in the constitution.
-- Evo Morales -
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.
-- Eyvind Johnson -
My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.
-- Ezra Miller -
When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
If you want to score a goal, you have to hit the target.
-- Fabio Capello -
A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.
-- Fanny Kemble -
My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
-- Felicia Day -
My goal with every show we put on Geek & Sundry is to make it that big of a success, not just within the video but within fandom itself.
-- Felicia Day -
Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
We are the number one custom yacht builder in the world and my goal is to stay there
-- Felix Sabates -
Far from being a sum of distinct and partial results, victory is the consequence of efforts, some of which are victorious while others appear to be fruitless, which nevertheless all aim at a common goal, all drive at a common result: namely, at a decision, a conclusion which alone can provide victory.
-- Ferdinand Foch -
Every manoeuvre must be the development of a scheme; it must aim at a goal.
-- Ferdinand Foch -
The purpose of our creation is obvious: to reach our utmost goals of belief, knowledge, and spirituality; to reflect on the universe, humanity, and God, and thus prove our value as human beings.
-- Fethullah Gulen -
Thats one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
-- Finn Wittrock -
The ultimate goal is to always break records.
-- Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
In 2030 we will be ageless and everyone will have an excellent chance to live forever. 2030 is a dream and a goal.
-- FM-2030 -
The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.
-- Forrest Church -
The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.
-- Frances Mayes -
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
-- Frances McDormand -
The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.
-- Francie Larrieu Smith -
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?
-- Francis Cabot Lowell -
During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.
-- Francois Hollande -
My goal is to put France back on its feet. I have to put this country back on its feet.
-- Francois Hollande -
I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.
-- Frank Lampard -
Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.
-- Frank Lampard -
My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.
-- Frank Shorter -
My goal is to break three hours in a marathon
-- Frank Shorter -
There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
-- Franz Kafka -
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
-- Fred Allen -
A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.
-- Fred Bear -
All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists.
-- Fred Brooks -
That's my No. 1 goal. I want to be part of (captain) Tom Lehman 's team.
-- Fred Funk -
Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.
-- Frederic Chopin -
Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.
-- Frederick Osborn -
If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.
-- Frederick Philip Grove -
Being goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and be able to utilize all the resources available to you. This includes the knowledge of all those available to you as well as using the physical resources and those who control them.
-- Frederick The Great -
Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.
-- Frederick W. Smith -
My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.
-- Frederick Wiseman -
We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!
-- Freeman Dyson -
By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Much we learn only to forget it again, to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it
-- Friedrich Ruckert -
If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?
-- G. Edward Griffin -
When I was playing football I never enjoyed it that much, I was never happy... if I scored two goals, I wanted a third, I always wanted more. Now it's all over I can look back with satisfaction, but I never felt that way when I was playing.
-- Gabriel Batistuta -
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
-- Gabriel Iglesias -
The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
-- Gabrielle Union -
It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.
-- Gael Garcia Bernal -
One goal of my art is to help people remember why they are here now.
-- Gage Taylor -
Speed as a drug disorganizes the personality; speed as the goal of information dissemination commits a subtler crime. People are mainlining our words. We rarely read of the rational alternatives, only of the commands that all must change or else. This is a prescription for public panic.
-- Gail Sheehy
