Quotes About Goal

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life.

If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

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

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is a sin.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it.

A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

The man who fails because he aims astray, or because he does not aim at all, is to be found everywhere.

Life's objective is life itself.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach your goal.

You always put some goal in your mind and you try to reach it. If you don't reach it, that's fine because you at least had something to look forward to.