Quotes About Goal

Happiness, Eragon had decided, was a fleeting, futile thing to pursue. Contentment, on the other hand, was a far more worthwhile goal.

It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.

If you set a goal, then forget about it and instead focus on creating an enjoyable process that you love and find personally rewarding, what happens is that you end up doing better at achieving the goal you set in the beginning.

Many people have dreams. However, a vision is a dream with a plan:

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.

Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. What is this ideal? It is God. Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words.

Every skull-cap may dream of the tiara.

Always shoot for the sun and you will shine.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.

We live in a time of terror, and contrary to what we see on television and allow ourselves to believe, the real goal of terror is not to kill people but to kill thought; to so demoralize a society that it implodes from within.

If there's something you want, pursue it. Hope has power. Don't waste it on foolish things.

And I suppose all the wishes come true," Minya said, sarcastic. "Of course not, silly girl," Suheyla retorted. She had not grown up in an era of optimism, but that didn't mean they'd lived without dreams. "Wishes don't just come true. They're only the target you paint around what you want. You still have to hit the bull's-eye yourself.

?yczenia nie spe?niaj? si? ot tak. To tylko kó?eczka, które malujesz wokó? tego, czego pragniesz. Trafi? do celu musisz ju? sama.

Wishes don't just come true. They're only the target you paint around what you want. You still have to hit the bulls-eye yourself.

Wishes don't just come true. They're only the target you paint around what you want. You

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Jem always said that Will rushed toward the end of a mission rather than proceeding in a measured manner, and that one must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the destination in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal. Will closed his eyes for a moment. He knew that Jem was right, but it was hard to remember, when the goal that he sought was the girl that he loved.

One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.

I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.

So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

dont wish upon a star reach for one