Quotes About Goal

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind

We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

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

In the long run, you hit only what you aim for.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not to be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.

Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full production and taken as an end in itself

To think at all requires a purpose, no matter how vague. The best thinking, however, requires a definite purpose, and the more definite this purpose the more definite will be our thinking. Therefore in taking up any special line of thought, we must first find just what our end or purpose is, and thus get clearly in mind what our problems are.

The end of everything was at hand; it seemed to him he could stretch out his arm and touch the goal. But he wanted to die at home — to extend himself in the large quiet room where he had last seen his father lie, and close his eyes upon the summer dawn.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there."*

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate struggle for changing the world. Against all fetishism of the productive forces, against the continued enslavement of individuals by the objective conditions (which remain those of domination), art represents the ultimate goal of all revolutions: the freedom and happiness of the individual.

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.'

Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I'm 28, and for the next six or seven years my goal is to try to fight for the yellow jersey. If I can win it once I would be chuffed to bits.

I would love to win a batting title. That would be amazing. Can I do it? Yes, I can. No doubt.

In business, I believe that if you focus only on the journey, you'll miss the whole point of the enterprise. There has to be a goal, an end game of some kind; otherwise, you're just spinning your wheels. Yes, the journey is important, but the destination is important, too.

There are two ways to approach the application process: trying to hit a home run by getting an immediate 'Yes, here's an offer' or trying not to be eliminated. I recommend the second approach.

The ultimate goal for me is to be the world champion - it's all I've wanted to do since I was a kid - so when the money that comes with it is life-changing, yes, that's nice, but get The Ring magazine belt, being considered the world champion, is something money can't buy.