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Quotes About Goals

People expect a lot from the number nine at Chelsea. They expect a lot of goals and good performances.
~ Gianfranco Zola
I like to chip in with goals because I'm an attacking player, and that's what an attacking player should do.
~ James Maddison
I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write.
~ Erik Larson
Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Jeremy Clarkson wants to become a farmer - he's bought a field - Hammond wants to open a supermarket, and I'd like to spend my days owning a shoe shop.
~ James May
I'd love to have legs like supermodel Gisele Bundchen!
~ Vogue Williams
I had gotten a master's degree in administration supervision with it in mind that I would some day be a professor, then get a doctorate degree and move up and eventually be president of a university.
~ Lee Corso
Leftist, anti-fascist activists known as Antifa, whose stated goals are to stamp out racism, white supremacy and authoritarianism, sometimes do use violence.
~ Elizabeth Flock
I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished.
~ Apolo Ohno
Fans want their emotions to come to the surface. How? By their team transmitting intensity, attacking, scoring goals, competing, winning. That awakens them.
~ Unai Emery
For most people who are transitioning, surgery isn't really a financial reality. So to place these goals of 'in order to be happy with my body, I must do this thing' is really damaging to yourself.
~ Laura Jane Grace
Principles describe rights; policies describe goals. But rights are trumps. They have a 'threshold weight' against community goals. They should not be squashed by a competing community goal.
~ Raymond Wacks
Managers aren't looking for ten- or twenty-year change programs—they want simple, objective goals: profit, growth, healthy quarterly reports, trained people, orderly markets, competitive advantage. Until these organizations face reality, give up the futile quest for control and begin to respect such concepts as workplace democracy, the need to question everything, and the search for a more balanced existence, even the most modest goals will be beyond reach.
~ Ricardo Semler
What do you want? Let's just start with the basics. Write down anything that you want in your life. These can be big or small things.
~ Richard Brodie
When you have what you want (inner peace), you are less distracted by your wants, needs, desires, and concerns. It's thus easier to concentrate, focus, achieve your goals, and to give back to others.
~ Richard Carlson
I've never met anyone (myself included) who hasn't turned little things into great big emergencies. We take our own goals so seriously that we forget to have fun along the way, and we forget to cut ourselves some slack. We take simple preferences and turn them into conditions for our own happiness. Or, we beat ourselves up if we can't meet our self-created deadlines.
~ Richard Carlson
Your teen is probably trying—and trying hard—to do everything his or her peers are expected to do as they mature and face increasing responsibilities. But it's a daily struggle when the teen has a deficiency in what are called executive skills, the functions of our brains and thought processes that help us regulate our behavior, set goals and meet them, and balance demands and desires, wants, needs, and have-tos.
~ Richard Guare
Today, I am a clear stream flowing softly through green meadows. I make my way swiftly but gently to my goals.
~ Julia Cameron
I think that in life you have to discover what you're good at, recognise what you can't do, decide what you want, aim for it, and try not to regret things afterwards.
~ Julian Barnes
Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
~ Jimmy Carter
Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].
~ Steve Guttenberg