Quotes About Goals

But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics.

Normally, when you're working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.

The top two goals of every presidential nominating convention are to unify the party and to define the candidate for the grueling weeks ahead.

It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

I put a list together. It was like: Get health insurance, get a car, get a bigger apartment, travel more, get a record deal, get a publishing deal, sell 10,000 units, be a part of a No. 1 album, make a million dollars. I got to check off 90 percent of the stuff last year. I hit some serious landmarks in 2015.

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty sure I will. I will not go to university; I will turn professional when I finish school.

How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.

Women tend to very much, very much think of money as a means to an end, not as an end in itself.

Live for your dreams, not your memories.

Take the challenge of your life.Reach out to your goals.There is no limit to what you can achieve.

I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.

I was in front of the goal so much at Stanford. I still amassed a lot of goals, but there were so many opportunities that I wasn't scoring.

I didn't care about being the 'star.' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini.

Everyone is entitled to reach for the stars.

I am not a person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.

People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.

When the year starts the objective is to win it all with the team, personal records are secondary.

Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.

It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.

I don't see I'll ever arrive at the point where I'll say, 'Lance old boy, you've arrived at success.' There's no question about it. Once you get to the point where you've arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it's not a ruthless sort of thing.

Clean sheets is a misleading statistic. It gives you the platform to win a game but you can lead 5-0 and concede a goal.