Quotes About Goals

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

Should America's primary goal be to improve the livelihood of its 330 million citizens or to preserve its primacy in the international system? If there are contradictions between the goals of preserving primacy and improving well-being, which should take priority?

I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

letting my experience carry me on, in a direction which appears to be forward, toward goals that I can but dimly define, as I try to understand at least the current meaning of that experience.

a scientific endeavor can never transcend itself to select new goals. Only subjective human persons can do that. Thus if we chose as our goal the state of happiness for human beings (a goal deservedly ridiculed by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World), and if we involved all of society in a successful scientific program by which people became happy, we would be locked in a colossal rigidity in which no one would be free to question this goal,

the best financial plan has nothing to do with what the markets are doing, nothing to do with what your real estate agent is telling you, nothing to do with the hot stock your brother-in-law told you about. It has everything to do with what's most important to you.

Alignment and collaboration need not be fuzzy, ill-defined concepts for "let's just all get along." Effective teamwork is more than good manners and good will, although both help an organization function more effectively. Alignment results from shared goals. Collaboration results from shared measures of success.

Another great moment was signing my first check, seeing all those zeroes. I'm thinking: Could you spend all those zeroes?

Every morning you have two choices: Continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.

We might say that the whole recent controversy between conservatism and liberalism is utterly wrongheaded and ignorant. Since the true role of conservatism must be to conserve the tradition of our society, and since that tradition is a liberal tradition, the two should be solely allied in their aim at common goals. So long as liberals and conservatives have as their primary goals to defend interests and to belabor each other for partisan reasons, they cannot do this. Tragedy & Hope, p. 1232

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.

The forty-four-hour week has no charm for me. I'm looking for a forty-hour day.

You have to set new goals every day.

To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.

Expecta­tions can become goals, which only get in the way of the experience we are having in this moment.