Goals Quotes

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

"Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it."

"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product of a life well lived."

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself."

"Set a goal that makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning."

"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."

"I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing."

"I'd love to do something with Kelly Clarkson because she's been a monumental influence on me. I love how she handles her celebrity. She's not in the tabloids a lot but everyone knows and respects her because she's got an amazing voice. That's something I aim towards."

"Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."

"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

"If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim."

"Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."

"Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake."

"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."

"No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto."

"Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals."

"Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?"

"Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals."

"Do What You Gotta Do' is a positive, inspirational song that says no matter what it is whether you're up against challenges or trying to get your dreams and aspirations met, you should do what whatever you have to do shy of killing yourself or someone else."

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."

"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one."

"The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."

"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."

"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."

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

"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

"I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers."

"I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter."

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

"Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them."

"Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer."

"As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities."

"I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too."

"I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness."

"No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground."

"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

"That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard."

"My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs."

"Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals."

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."

"Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals."