Goals Quotations

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals - Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope - hope for democracy and the rule of law, hope for peace and stability, hope for better future in which every person can pursue goals commensurate with his or her needs, talents and ambitions.

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

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.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.

Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.

I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.

The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals and advocate meaningful change to government and corporate policies that block progress and entrench injustice.

One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what I wished someone would've done for me.

I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the world wide web and remind you they exist. As a result, our goals do not get the respect they deserve.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.

I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn't interested in anything else.

I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.

People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that's what it takes to accomplish your goals.

At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.

Five days a week, I read my goals before I go to sleep and when I wake up. There are 10 goals around health, family and business with expiration dates, and I update them every six months.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.

I've exceeded a few of my goals, but I'm behind on a couple of others.

When it comes to tackling your financial goals, whatever they might be, there's no time like the present.

Scoring goals is the best feeling you can have. I always look up at the stand for my family straight afterwards; it means everything to me that they travel to every game.

Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.

Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion - those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I'd like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.

My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if there's something broken inside me, if there's a hole in there, I thought: If I could just write a good song someday, then I'd be OK. You know, if I could just be on stage in front of people I'd never seen before and be validated by them.

Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level, and he kicks his goals better than both of them.

I don't really have goals as far as, I want to be on a cover or something like that.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

I was still taking piano lessons up until 18 months ago. If I had one thing I could add to my very full calendar, it would be that. That's one of my personal goals because it helps balance all parts of your life, and I really get a lot of enjoyment out of playing Mozart and Beethoven.

One of the drives for me is inspiring other people. We want to be that inspiration to young girls out there, to women out there. We have songs that touch on women's issues and songs that touch on family issues; in particular, one about a family waiting on their soldier to come home. We really want to touch people, and one of our main goals when people come to our show is for them to kind of forget their problems for a few minutes and have a mental break from what's going on in the world right now.

One of the most pleasing aspects has been the amount of goals we get in the last 10 minutes of games,

One of the girls' goals was to get a sectional plaque. We had never done it. They accomplished that. They realize they're only one game away from the promised land. It's huge.

One of the goals here is unified communications. It's really removing a lot of latency in business communications.

One of the goals is to have 92 percent of the children in permanent brick-and-mortar seats. Currently, we are running an elementary school with 76 percent of children in permanent seats. By slowing down progress for the goal, you actually save some money.

One of the goals is to make sure we have the most skilled workers and to make sure we increase opportunities for workers to learn skills that will be needed in the future,

One of the goals is to play consistent every week. We haven't accomplished that, but we've still got a chance.

One of the goals is to win the whole thing. At the same time, you've got to take it one game at a time. This was obviously a good step in that direction.

One of the goals of ballet is to make it look as easy as possible, so people think it's easier than it really is.

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

One of the goals of our research on software quality and security is to define a baseline so that people can measure software reliability in both open source and proprietary software projects. No technology can find all bugs in software, but we have collected a critical mass of data through an automated and repeatable analysis framework to show how software quality can be concretely assessed, compared, and ultimately improved.

One of the goals we always set is to improve from the beginning of the season to the end. Lawrence Central softball has never won a sectional title, so that's one of our goals.

One of the goals we have set for this year is that we never want to get beat by seven points or less, ... That might sound funny, but if you look at last year's results, we lost three games by seven or less. We could have gone into the tournament with five wins instead of two wins, and then that confidence would have been there. So there are opportunities to improve our record dramatically by winning the close games.

One of the great goals of this meeting was to have people know each other and be able to communicate directly. We don't have time for the normal diplomatic procedures.

One of the key goals at the beginning of the season was to get the county championships back. Today was the deadline for the state playoffs with the power points. So now we go into that arena. That's our next challenge -- that's the next thing we have to look forward to.

One of the main goals of D.I. is teamwork. We really talk about this often during our practices. I always tell them to have fun and show everyone else how you all can shine in your very own way too.

On special teams, we weren't very sharp. They scored three goals on the power play and we didn't have any. Five on five, we can play with anybody, we know that. I don't think we're a worse team than them. Maybe less talented, but worse? No way.

On paper they are inferior to us so our aim is to score as many goals as possible so that we don't lose out to our rivals on goal difference.

On the power play, I'm in a really good position, ... Guys are giving me the puck for the one-timer and I get good chances. I played the point back when I played in Russia. It's a really good spot, you know. I have lots of shots and lots of chances. I practice a lot at it and it's working. The goals are coming and the wins are coming.

On the road it?s tough to fall behind two goals early. We want to be the aggressor wherever we play. We have to take control of the game when it?s there to take control of.

I was praying for rain. Whenever it's wet it favors the offense. And when you need to score goals that's what you want.

I work to score goals -- you know, I haven't scored a goal yet this season. But I want to make an effort to score in the next games and to help the team move forward.

I would have bet anything that he was going to win. This has always been a goal of mine, so I've accomplished one of my goals already.

I wouldn't set goals that I didn't think I could achieve. ... I wanted to win a major this year. That didn't happen. I don't feel satisfied unless all my goals are reached.

If we don't get young people involved, this thing is going to go away. One of our goals is to get kids interested in fishing. If we don't get young people involved, this is not going to be around in 10 years.

I wouldn't expect any changes to the starting line-up. It was pretty much one way traffic from what I was told, and we might have finished with five or six goals had we got the first one.

When I came to Texas, my main two goals were to get started on earning my degree and to have the opportunity to play in the NBA. I've accomplished both of those and the opportunity is there for me right now to begin the next stage of my basketball career.

When I come to a tournament I set really high goals and I come here to do the best I can. I don't know if I'm being rude if I win my own tournament, but I'm just a very competitive person and I love to do well. Today was a step in the right direction and one of my better rounds in about a month so I feel really good.

When I look at Simon, I see the same player I've seen for two years. But now he plays with a center man who is a playmaker. I see a guy who gets to the puck who never got to it when he was here previously. He gets a lot of goals off the rush, which he never used to get before.

When I got the second goal, I knew I had 100 goals so one of my teammates, Gillian Apps, grabbed the puck for me.

My girls are still running strong. They seem to just get better and better. The girls want to set their goals high, too, so they working on making themselves better.

My goal coming into this season was to win the Indy 500. When I achieved that, I had to adjust my mindset, and the goals I had for myself. Obviously, winning the championship was the next goal.

Life is getting ready to hit them upside the head. If you think losing to Florida is bad try to get married, raise a family and pay the bills. Being in college is about trying to develop a philosophy and trying to develop goals about how you want to attack life.

Let's be honest, we had much higher goals and expectations for ourselves this season. What would (Wake men's basketball coach Skip) Prosser say? Skip would say 'mercurial.' He's a wordsmith. We were mercurial. We were up and down.

Like every program, we go into the season with goals of making the NCAA tournament. That is our number one goal, to make it to the Field of 64. They are pretty lofty goals, but you have to aim high.

Should they have goals of the sweet 16 and elite eight and final four? Sure. I would think so.

Some of my bigger goals are building relationships and proving myself as someone who's going to be accountable to the parents, staff and taxpayers of the district.

One of my biggest goals is to see if I can?t add to the great things already going on there. Lange is a very caring community. It?s like going home.

(Of all my field goals), I'm proudest of that kick today. I can honestly say that.

Obviously you don't ever want to give up short-handed goals. Tonight that one probably let them back in the game. We had a chance to really put them down, but it was a real momentum breaker.

Of course, one of our goals is to win some races. Especially for our seniors, we want to have a successful season.

Obviously we've been having some trouble scoring goals lately. We're telling the guys they've just got to be patient. We're getting good chances, the goals will come.

Obviously, we are very disappointed for Amanda and our team. She has been such an important part of our program. We will continue to compete and play as hard as possible and reach the goals that we have set for this season.

Obviously, we came off a bit of a shocker and gave up some goals that we are not necessarily happy with. We're looking to correct that as well. People are going to score. Just make them the greatest goals you've ever seen.

Obviously, we'd love to be ahead the whole time, but if we're down by one or two goals against a great team like Sweden or Canada, we'll see it's OK. We were able to come back. For me, I'm happy it happened. We stayed composed on the bench. We didn't throw our hands up in the air.

Obviously we'd love to score six or seven goals but we don't do that. You're not going to beat people easy.

One of my fondest goals is to try to bridge the gap between urban and rural Oregon. Democrats identify with urban people, Republicans with rural people. We need to get rid of partisanship.

One of my goals as president of ASLMS is to try to establish some criteria for certification of who's qualified to do specific procedures, ... As you might guess, it's politically charged.

One of my goals, from what everyone keeps telling me about the past, is that we want to be back in the center of town - to be the show in town.

One of my goals is to get the Battlefield promotion, ... So it is on my mind, but I'm trying not to dwell on it. This is definitely the closest I've been since I got my second win.

One of my goals was to bridge the gap between students and athletes. My dad has been really involved with the ACS; I have a couple cancer survivors in my family, and I lost my grandpa to leukemia. I thought starting the relays would be a really bring a cool thing to do and bring students together.