Quotes on Goal

Before I discovered the concept of the 5 love languages, a bit of advice I was given was to become a student of my wife and to take time to learn what makes her feel loved. I soon learned that what makes her feel loved may not always be the thing I want to do because it may not come natural to me. But learning to love her in the way that makes her feel loved is a greater demonstration of my love for her, because I've chosen to do it with a goal of pleasing her.

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.

The goal is to balance a life that works with a life that counts.

Grand strategy is the art of looking beyond the present battle and calculating ahead. Focus on your ultimate goal and plot to reach it.

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. It is the goal of every other goal. Ben Henretig has embarked on an ambitious project to document a country and culture that has embraced Happiness as a part of its national policy

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

In every failure is the seed of success... _x000D_ Our failures are stepping stones in the mechanics of creation, bringing us even closer to our goals. In reality, there is no such thing as failure. What we call failure is just a mechanism through which we can learn to do things right.

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion of our time.

The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them common tools for common goals. Their goals are goals for all America - and their enemies are the enemies for progress. The two cannot be separated.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

The difference between those who fail to achieve their goals in life and those who succeed is the difference between those who cannot put themselves in a supportive state and those who can consistently put themselves in a state that supports them in their achievements.

The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in marriage, at your job, in the community, for your country. Make the effort to contribute in whatever way you can. You may do it materially or with time, ideas, or work. Making the effort to contribute is what counts. The effort is what counts in everything.

What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.