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Quotes About Goal

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
~ Earl Nightingale
Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.
~ A. G. Sertillanges
If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.
~ Brian Baird
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'
~ Tom Robbins
Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.
~ Mason Cooley
It follows that the goal of forecasting is not to see what's coming. It is to advance the interests of the forecaster and the forecaster's tribe.
~ Philip Tetlock
she taught me that there is nothing in the world more powerful than a woman who knows what she wants and walks a straight road towards it. "It doesn't matter if you call it magic or determination. It doesn't matter if you make a spell or a plot. You have to make up your mind what you want, and have the courage to set your heart on it.
~ Philippa Gregory
Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.
~ Plato
I will proceed by asking a question: Would you not say that a horse has some end? I should. And the end or use of a horse or of anything would be that which could not be accomplished, or not so well accomplished, by any other thing? I do not understand, he said. Let me explain: Can you see, except with the eye? Certainly not. Or hear, except with the ear? No. These then may be truly said to be the ends of these organs? They may.
~ Plato
Cuando el fin es sublime, todo lo que se sufre para conseguirlo no lo es menos.
~ Plato
I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness, or aimless work (like Auschwitz's Arbeit), gives rise to suffering and to atrophy.
~ Primo Levi
Hannah: What's your plan? Claire: Go get him Hannah: Honey, that is not a plan. That's what we in the military call an objective.
~ Rachel Caine
To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.
~ Rachel Carson
End justifies the means
~ Rafe Esquith
I knew that to accomplish my goal I would need to stay present with my discomfort and my fear of the unknown rather than retreat to the false safety of familiar ground.
~ Debbie Ford
There's a price to be paid for dreaming.
~ Denis Johnson
Winning is taking the talent or potential you were born with, and have since developed, and using it fully toward a goal or purpose that makes you happy.
~ Denis Waitley
Goal 3: That each child would learn the joy of successful ministry
~ Unknown
One major goal of this book is to present as thorough a dissection of Leftism as has been written.
~ Dennis Prager
The Torah's view is we are supposed to be preoccupied with making this world as heavenly as possible. Those who live by its moral laws and values are best able to achieve that goal.
~ Dennis Prager
Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do!
~ Denzel Washington
A man's life had to have more purpose than only to feed himself each day.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I've heard it said that a man's reach must exceed his grasp—or what's a heaven for?
~ Diana Gabaldon
I've always had high ambitions and aspirations.
~ James Dashner