Quotes on Goal

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

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.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.