Goal Quotes

• People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Evil
  • Achieve
  • Deeds

• At the end of the day, the ultimate goal is winning the ballgame.

  

  Paul Pierce
  • Winning
  • Ultimate
  • Ballgame

• The goal of online dating is to get offline as quickly as possible.

  

  Amy Webb
  • Goal
  • Dating
  • Offline

• If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People
  • Up
  • Earth

• What am I doing as a filmmaker? What is the goal? To look for the unknown atmosphere that hasn't been described before. This is my only goal. Unknown images. Because if not, it's boring, no?

  

  Albert Serra
  • Goal
  • Atmosphere
  • Filmmaker

• Worry is nothing more or less than negative goal setting.

  

  Ed Foreman
  • Worry
  • Goal
  • Setting

• Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Roads
  • Same Point

• There are no unachievable goals.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Goal

• I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Goal
  • Great Art

• Not so in haste, my heart! Have faith in God and wait; Although he linger long, He never comes too late. He never comes too late, He knoweth what is best: Vex not thyself in vain; Until he cometh, rest. Until he cometh, rest. Nor grudge the hours that roll: The feet that wait for God Are soonest at the goal. Are soonest at the goal. That is not gained by speed; Then hold thee still, my heart, For I shall wait his lead.

  

  Bradford Torrey
  • Lead
  • Vain
  • Haste

• If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

  

  Plotinus
  • Goal
  • Right
  • Conduct

• The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that ever recedes.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Knowledge
  • Goal
  • Progression

• Goals are like the gas in your car, you may go in many different directions after you fill up, but with out the gas you are not going anywhere

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Different
  • May
  • Car

• Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Goal
  • Simplicity
  • Difficulties

• When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Thinking
  • Free
  • Seeking

• Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

  

  Nido Qubein
  • Winner
  • Achievements
  • Losers

• I am totally involved with music, but my goal is to do the sports thing.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Sports
  • Goal
  • Involved

• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Mother
  • Good Fortune
  • Best Wishes

• People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • People
  • Together
  • Community

• Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.

  

  David Galenson
  • Artist
  • Innovation
  • Motivated

• I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Understanding
  • Language

• That's your end goal anyway, is to make the fans happy.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Happy
  • Goal
  • Fans

• In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • World
  • War
  • Mean

• One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

  

  Francis Cabot Lowell
  • Imagination
  • Garden
  • Lifetime

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