Goals Quotes

• Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

  

  Dave Hickey
  • America
  • Church
  • Sacrifice

• Because President Obama had an overall strategy, military and civilian leaders under his command could make reactive decisions that advanced the president's goals. In the military, we call that commander's intent: When there's a decision to be made and you don't have exact guidance at that moment, you at least know overall what your boss wants.

  

  Jason Kander
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Boss

• The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Opportunity
  • Action
  • Language

• I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • Goals
  • Saying

• People who are used to constant attention and flattery become inured to the merely pleasant and become "peak seekers." They expect the highs, and when their unrealistic goals or expectations are not met, they are not simply disappointed, they are devastated.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • People
  • Attention
  • Goals

• People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • Goals
  • Succeed

• I have scored some big-time goals. I've done well in Algarve Cups. I've done well in World Cup and Olympic qualifiers, Olympics. In big games when we're playing top-five teams. But yet, you never see my face or my name out there. And it has frustrated me my entire career.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • World
  • Done

• Sabotage is not merely something to be avoided or wished away; instead, it comes with the territory of leading, whether the “territory” is a family or an organization. And a leader’s capacity to recognize sabotage for what it is—that is, a systemic phenomenon connected to the shifting balances in the emotional processes of a relationship system and not to the institution’s specific issues, makeup, or goals—is the key to the kingdom.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • Family
  • Territory
  • Wished

• As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.

  

  Jamshyd Godrej
  • Good
  • Design
  • Green

• One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Goals
  • Successful

• Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.

  

  Roy H. Williams
  • Goals
  • Actions
  • Day-dreams

• Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Opportunity
  • Poverty
  • Equality

• 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.

  

  Bill Budge
  • Hand
  • Goals

• I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Past
  • Small
  • Adversity

• Black Lives Matter has no more to do with black issues than Students for a Democratic Society had to do with democracy. They are means to an end, and they use the black population as sacrifices for their goals.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • Society
  • Black
  • Democracy

• Ask your editor or ask your agent to find out what the house's goals are for your book before it comes out. Get some sense of expectations so you are prepared.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • House
  • Expectations

• I do think it's possible to change people's minds - it's one of my goals with my music.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • People
  • Music
  • Goals

• After the 2013 World Championships, I had three goals for the Olympics: to swim 3:56 or better in the 400-meter freestyle, break 8:05 in the 800, and win gold in the 200. I achieved all of those, and soon, it will be time to set some new goals.

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • Time
  • World
  • Gold

• Do we not see God at work in our circumstances? Dark times are allowed and come to us through the sovreignty of God. Are we prepared to let God do what He wants with us? Are we prepared to be separated from the outward, evident blessings of God? Until Jesus Christ is truly our Lord, we each have goals of our own which we serve. Our faith is real, but it is not yet permanent. And God is never in a hurry. If we are willing to wait, we will see God pointing out that we have been interested only in his blessings, instead of God Himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Real

• I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Fall
  • Goals

• Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Business
  • Goals
  • Distance

• Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Attention
  • Focus
  • Thoughts

• I don't like to set myself goals because then you might fail to reach them. I just go with the flow.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Goals

• Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Goals

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