One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
~By Hugh Laurie ~
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
~By Jim Rohn ~
A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
~By Dean Koontz ~
I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.
~By Steve Kerr ~
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
~By Bill Budge ~
An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
~By Alberto Salazar ~
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Our goal is not to crush the enemy at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms to overthrow a democratically elected government.
~By Jose Eduardo Dos Santos ~
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.
~By Jeff Probst ~
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
~By George S. Patton ~
What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.
~By Renny Harlin ~
Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
~By Dorothy Height ~
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
~By Al Goldstein ~
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.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.
~By Michael Pollan ~
My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.
~By Mike Johanns ~
I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.
~By Michel Patini ~
If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.
~By James Sinegal ~
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
~By Brian Tracy ~
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.
~By Alan Thicke ~
I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.
~By Dennis Cardoza ~
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
What keeps me going is goals.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
~By Avery Brundage ~
Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
~By Chris Evert ~
I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.
~By Laurent Jalabert ~
Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.
~By Ken Hill ~
I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.
~By Greg Lake ~
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.
~By Robert Collier ~
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
~By Helen Keller ~
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
Our main goal is to serve people as quickly as possible. You need to have towers where people need coverage.
~By Dan White ~
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
~By Earl Nightingale ~
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
~By Alberto Salazar ~
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.
~By Greg Anderson ~
Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.
~By John Baldacci ~
The goal of physiological research is functional nature.
~By Walter Rudolf Hess ~
Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.
~By Nick Rahall ~
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
~By Jim Rohn ~
The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.
~By Rosabeth Moss Kanter ~
The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~
Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
~By Ralph Ransom ~
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.
~By Archibald Cox ~
Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
~By Rosalynn Carter ~
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
~By Larry Elder ~
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.
~By Nadia Comaneci ~
It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.
~By Dorothy Stratten ~
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.
~By Breyten Breytenbach ~
My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.
~By Brian McBride ~
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.
~By Todd Barry ~
If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.
~By Michael Porter ~
I'm incredibly impressed by people who organize to achieve a goal, and believe that they can make a difference and then go ahead and do just that. I think it's incredible.
~By Fiona Apple ~
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
~By Benjamin E. Mays ~
It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.
~By Peter Forsberg ~
Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.
~By River Phoenix ~
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
~By Gary Wills ~
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
~By Rollo May ~
Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.
~By Michael Shanks ~
You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.
~By Jose Carreras ~
I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth.
~By John Hutton ~
In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.
~By Ryan White ~
Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
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.
~By John H. Johnson ~
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
~By Michael Korda ~
Now I'm kind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team and I still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back.
~By Peter Bondra ~
It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime.
~By Linda M. Godwin ~
I didn't always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.
~By Michael Irvin ~
Putting women in military combat is the cutting edge of the feminist goal to force us into an androgynous society.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.
~By Emma Stone ~
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.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
~By Howard Schultz ~
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
~By Vash Young ~
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
You're forced to think about what your goals are and you clarify them because you're taking this journey with another person and you need to be open with your partner.
~By Sarah Michelle Gellar ~
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
~By Aung San Suu Kyi ~
But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
~By Robert M. Pirsig ~
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