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Quotes About Goal

The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew the way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.
~ James Allen
Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.
~ Luke Wilson
You're wrong Heinrich. While it might seem easy to believe, you and I aren't actually the same. You've been fighting someone else's war, you've been obeying orders, you've been carrying out a part in his plan. You've served other people all your life, for a goal that you won't even see accomplished: that's your defeat.
~ Unknown
At length the long-wished-for fall of 1856 arrived — long wished for because I could not be sure of an income adequate to support a wife until I was admitted to the bar, and I could not be admitted to the bar until I was twenty-one.
~ Lyman Abbott
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.
~ Lynda Barry
What's a decision you are in the midst of making? Chase it down. If you do this, where will it most likely lead? And then what? And then? Keep going until you walk it all the way out.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
We do not have any worldly demands, large or small. We do not have any interest in worldly politics and we have been consciously staying away from it. We believe that getting involved in worldly politics will taint our goal of pleasing God, and will negatively affect our relationship with God as his servants. For this reason, we stay away from political positions which can contaminate our heart and spiritual life.
~ Unknown
We do what we do because it serves some need.
~ Unknown
Finding a positive motivation also engages your emotional brain to work for the change, not against it. Remember, it wants to go toward pleasure. So the more emotionally pleasurable your positive motivation, the more it will help you achieve your goal.
~ Unknown
Deegan elaborated that the goal of such recovery "is not to become normal" or to "get mainstreamed," but to "embrace our human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.
~ Unknown
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
~ Unknown
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
~ John F. Kennedy
I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
~ John F. Kennedy
We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon...We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.
~ John F. Kennedy
Make a goal to stay confident today. The world believes in you when you fully believe in yourself
~ John Gray
When people say their goal in life is to be happy they are telling you they are miserable. Thinking of happiness as a project, they look for fulfillment at some future time. The present slips by, and anxiety creeps in. (…) so they turn to philosophy, and nowadays therapy, which offer relief from their unease.
~ John Gray
Where one cannot compete, one must aspire.
~ Unknown
Men can labor to make sense out of single steps toward the goal without ever pausing to reflect that the goal itself is ludicrous.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.
~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself.
~ Sybil Marshall
The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.
~ Bill O'Reilly
The chaotic theory of education is that you go to college, earn a degree and then that degree may be used in something completely different. It's about achieving the goal first.
~ Randall Cobb
The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.
~ John Milton
Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.
~ Jesse Jackson