Quotes About Goal

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

It's the steady, constant driving to the goal for which you're striving, not the speed with which you travel, that will make your victory sure.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

I only have to stop the puck, not beat it to death.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills itself.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

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

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate; As the voyage along thru life; 'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Our visions begin with our desires.

...the goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade.

Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.

What's the point of playing if winning isn't the goal?

You've played the games. You're a competitive soul." "What's the point of playing if winning isn't the goal?