Goal Quotes

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Live, Succeed, Ahead

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
Grover Norquist

Government, Size, Drown

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel de Cervantes

Good, Best, Mother

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Heraclitus

Best, Themselves, Stuff

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
Paul Wellstone

Education, Human, Democracy

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
Thomas S. Monson

Life, Friend, Decision

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
Danica Patrick

Great, Together, Put

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
Gilbert Parker

Him, Light, Keep

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
Alfred A. Montapert

Life, Mind, After

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.
Charles R. Swindoll

Focus, Important, Jesus

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Louis Kronenberger

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.
Michael Pollan

Perfect, Fairness, However

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
James Cash Penney

Men, Best, Working

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Robert M. Pirsig

Life, Future, Live

I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
Lady Gaga

Process, Obsessed

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
Donald Rumsfeld

Money, Focus, Rather

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Cossman

Person, Eyes, Off

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Scott Adams

Success, Failure, Successful

If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.
Suze Orman

Live, Off, House

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, Government, Nation

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
Robert Collier

Nothing, Against, Trouble

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.
Robert Fulghum

Long, Night, Down

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Life, Happiness, Political

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
Bruce Jay Friedman

Women, Wife, Friend

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
Gustave Flaubert

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Maxwell Maltz

Picture, Act, Fail

We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.
Paul Ryan

Plan, Next, Stronger

I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it.
Chuck Norris

Before, Getting, Achieve

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Soul, Himself, Loses

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur

Strength, Tell, Secret

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