Goal Quotes

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.

My goal is to be remembered as a human being and as a great performer.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

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.

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

I'm not maximized yet.

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.

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough.' That became my mantra.

My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have been able to get it back so quickly.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

See that's a goal that I think it's very good in the debate to find out who the person is.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

The goal of all life is death.

I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.

My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

Live dangerously and you live right.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

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.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

The President has launched a very agressive campaign of self-defense, with the goal of getting Americans to buy into his vision of America on the world stage.

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.

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.

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.

Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.

Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.

My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world.

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

When I finally had the chance to make my childhood dream a reality - as a co-founder and chairman of Moon Express - my goal was to broaden participation in lunar exploration, and connect the common person to its results. We plan to send robotic rovers - not humans - to the Moon to search for precious metals and rare minerals on the Moon's surface.

Also, for a team as strong as like ours, the Tour will always remain the biggest goal of the whole year, and personally I will certainly concentrate most of my energy on this race.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

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.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

My #1 goal is to become a successful singer and share my gift with the world.

Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.