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Quotes About Goal

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
~ Watchman Nee
Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.
~ William George Jordan
The center of every man's existence is a dream.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.
~ Archibald Alexander Hodge
Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.
~ Edgard Varese
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
~ Francis Bacon
Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
~ Joseph Campbell
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
~ Red Smith
Goal achievement is hero's work.
~ Bill Vaughan
A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.
~ Earl Nightingale
Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.
~ Garrison Wynn
The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.
~ Myles Munroe
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it.
~ Frank Bettger
It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.
~ Aaron Eckhart
A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.
~ Anton Chekhov
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
~ Blaise Pascal
A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.
~ Harvey Dunn
We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.
~ Terrence Real
She had always asked him what, exactly, he was training for. Now she knew.
~ Terri Blackstock
Every goal, every dream and every success begins on the inside of you.
~ Terri Savelle Foy