Quotes About Goal

The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.

I'm at that point in my career you can put up all the numbers you want to, you can swing whatever statistic you want to swing, but it doesn't matter if you don't get to the Super Bowl and win it.

I don't know if the goal is necessarily to hit the ball in the air; I think when my swing is right it just happens on its own.

When you go a goal behind the pressure drops off you and you feel like you can play more so when we go ahead we need to be switched on and that is when we need leaders on the pitch.

Klopp's philosophy? Getting the ball back, a quick switching game, combinations and then ice cold in front of goal.

I'd want to play the Sydney Opera House.

I think the end goal, hopefully, is to take advantage of the attention I've gotten along the way and use it for good and build some communities, and as I get older I can continue to do things and be surrounded by things that are inspirational to me.

Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death through freezing - a pleasant one.

What is the basis of imitating Jesus? It cannot be his ways of being or his personal habits: imitation is never about that in the Gospels. Neither does Jesus propose an ascetic rule of life in the sense of Thomas a Kempis and his celebrated Imitation of Christ, as admirable as that work may be. What Jesus invites us to imitate is his own desire, the spirit that directs him toward the goal on which his intention is fixed: to resemble God the Father as much as possible.

What Jesus invites us to imitate is his own desire, the spirit that directs him toward the goal on which his intention is fixed: to resemble God the Father as much as possible.

The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to desire their desires.

Een doel, hoe nietig ook, verschafte het leven zin en betekenis.

If you see it in your mind, you're going to hold it in your hand

Whatever the mind … can conceive it can achieve." W. Clement Stone (1902–2002)

Where you end up is the thing, not how you get there. How you get there, that's just something to be debated by the suckers who never make it out.

Thinking should always be an active process where you think in a way that gets you the results you want.

Whatever your goal is you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and fly.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

when I have presented this subject in university classes, I have tried to be as sensitive to the feelings of my fundamentalist and orthodox students as possible. The goal was not to shake them up or produce faith crises.

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

People hated to take their disagreements to the President; it was as though a failure to agree somehow reflected badly on each of them, and consensus, rather than clarity, was often the highest goal of the process.

The product here is not so much books as that goal of ten thousand years of history, the thing the human brain craves above all else and nature will die refusing to give: convenience. Ease is the disease ...

So now we move toward the goal, the very purpose of human life, "another intensity…a deeper communion," as Eliot calls it, that which the container is meant to hold, support, and foster.