Quotes About Goal

The real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new commodities.

He too had plans... he wasn't embarrassed by the idea of carefully thinking through what would be necessary to achieve them. You made a picture of the life you wanted to have, and then you worked back from there to the present.

The goal of education is understanding; the goal of training is performance.

As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal - something we are to become - some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.

Generally and understandably we think that if our ministries increase, Jesus' ministry will increase as well. John the Baptist knows better. He apparently believes that it is possible to be so consumed with Christ's increase that one can actually be content to be less significant oneself. This is the mystery of authentic ministry. Who of us can say we have attained this poised self-diminution? It is a goal greatly to be desired.

A life is the gradual approach, through an infinite number of compromises, to a preconceived goal, to an ideal, a dream or vision which may never be completely realized

Dream Big. Or Go Back To Sleep and Try Again.

A plan is simply what you decide to consciously & consistently focus on.

I hate to interrupt the feasting," Vanessa said, "but we did come here for a purpose. Let's try to focus on something besides sweet fat and salty fat for the next little while.

Journey before destination. There are several ways to achieve a goal. Failure is preferable to winning through unjust means. Protecting ten innocents is not worth killing one. In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.

The sudden and abrupt removal of my all-consuming goal … well, it was like I was a donut, and somebody had sucked all the jelly out of me. But I could stuff new jelly in there. It would just get my hands a little sticky in the process.

Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.

Abandon the guilt," Prof said. "Abandon the denial. Steelheart did this to her. He's our goal. That has to be your focus. We don't have time for grief; we only have time for vengeance.

I could have traveled quickly. But all men have the same ultimate destination.

I didn't have all the answers, but at least I had a goal. Revenge. Who cared if it would eat me up inside and leave me hollow?

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

The three parts are goal, pathway, and agency. We can identify a realistic goal (I know where I want to go), and then we can figure out the pathway to get there, even if it's not a straight line and involves a Plan B and scrappiness (I know I can get there because I'm persistent and I will keep trying in the face of setbacks and disappointment). Agency is belief in our ability to stay on that path until we've arrived (I know I can do this).

Perfection is an unattainable goal.

It is good to have a goal. You should hold on to it. People who have lost sight of their goal often begin to live in a careless manner.

In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.