Goals Quotes

‘Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.’ – Bo Jackson

‘What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.’ – Tony Robbins

‘When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.’ – Confucius

‘Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.’ – LL Cool J

‘I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.’ – Venus Williams

‘Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.’ – Pablo Picasso

‘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.’ – Les Brown

‘Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.’ – Kallam Anji Reddy

‘One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.’ – Michael Korda

‘With consistency and reps and routine you’re going to achieve your goals and get where you want to be.’ – Mandy Rose

‘A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.’ – Larry Bird

‘Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.’ – Dorothy Height

‘Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.’ – Eminem

‘I have short goals – to get better every day, to help my teammates every day – but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It’s all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.’ – LeBron James

‘Goals transform a random walk into a chase.’ – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

‘You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.’ – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

‘At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.’ – Jodi Rell

‘No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.’ – Jessica Savitch

‘Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.’ – Thurgood Marshall

‘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

‘Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.’ – Robert J. Shiller

‘People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.’ – Earl Nightingale

‘I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they’re impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working hard and follow your dreams.’ – Katie Ledecky

‘Camaraderie doesn’t happen by accident; developing a strong sense of trust, accountability, and togetherness around team goals requires intentional effort.’ – Don Yaeger

‘Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.’ – Denis Waitley

‘I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone else. I’m more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? When I retire, I hope I am remembered for being a decent guy.’ – Lionel Messi

‘Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.’ – Ralph Marston

‘Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.’ – David Joseph Schwartz

‘What keeps me going is goals.’ – Muhammad Ali

‘Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.’ – Jack Canfield

‘Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.’ – Lee Haney

‘I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.’ – Kristi Yamaguchi

‘It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.’ – Stokely Carmichael

‘You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that’s great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.’ – Taylor Swift

‘The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.’ – Michael Jordan

‘I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.’ – Mia Hamm

‘If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.’ – James Cameron

‘I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.’ – Michael Phelps

‘A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, ‘He’s a great player’, because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.’ – Pele

‘Make no mistake about it. Bad habits are called ‘bad’ for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals. And they’re detrimental to our health.’ – John Rampton

‘History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.’ – Haile Selassie

‘One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.’ – Michelle Obama

‘As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.’ – J. Cole

‘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.’ – John H. Johnson

‘You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.’ – George S. Patton

‘You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own.’ – Mark Victor Hansen

‘A proper criminal justice system exacts justice – that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but they are secondary to retribution.’ – Michael J. Knowles

‘In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.’ – Sid Caesar

‘The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.’ – Bad Bunny

‘Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.’ – Brian Tracy

‘Don’t worry about motivation. Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes. It is unreliable – and when you are counting on motivation to get your goals accomplished, you will likely fall short.’ – Jocko Willink

‘Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.’ – Viktor E. Frankl

‘Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Always remember, the goals that we have achieved pale in comparison to the daily commitments it took to get there.’ – Dabo Swinney

‘Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.’ – Billy Graham

‘To achieve our goals of educating bold and ambitious children, we must invest in enriching, quality early child care and learning.’ – Stacey Abrams

‘If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.’ – Lou Holtz

‘Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.’ – Cristiano Ronaldo

‘It really is never too late, it really is never too early to figure out your goals and dreams and what you love.’ – Garrett McNamara

‘We know from research that growth is actually contagious, so if you want to reach your goals, you’ve got to get around people that are going in the same direction you want to be going, and you will catch the success.’ – Henry Cloud

‘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.’ – Greg Anderson

‘My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.’ – Kiana Tom

‘I’m confident to say that if you want to grow in a profession, consistency is the key… I’m strict about my work goals and training.’ – Eliud Kipchoge

‘You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan well, focus, work hard, and be very determined to achieve your goals.’ – Henry Sy

‘Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.’ – Russel Honore

‘I’m honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing – to be successful and make history.’ – Canelo Alvarez

‘The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.’ – Melody Beattie

‘Football’s not just about scoring goals – it’s about winning.’ – Alan Shearer

‘Positive thinking is a valuable tool that can help you overcome obstacles, deal with pain, and reach new goals.’ – Amy Morin

‘Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.’ – Paul J. Meyer

‘I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.’ – James Naismith

‘I learned a few years ago that balance is the key to a happy and successful life, and a huge part of achieving that balance is to instill rituals into your everyday life – a nutritious balanced diet, daily exercise, time for yourself through meditation, reading, journaling, yoga, daily reflection, and setting goals.’ – Gretchen Bleiler

‘To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.’ – Janet Jackson

‘Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.’ – Stephen Covey

‘You’ve got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You’ll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you’re trying to achieve in your life.’ – Patch Adams

‘I think everybody’s trying to get to a place in themselves where they conquer what they was afraid of; they achieve some of their life goals, kept their word about what they were trying to do.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your interests, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals.’ – Jameela Jamil

‘Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.’ – David A. Bednar

‘Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.’ – Albert Camus

‘I work hard every day to try to help my team. I try to have fun too – because football is still fun – and scoring goals, breaking records, that’s what drives me.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.’ – W. Clement Stone

‘I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don’t have someone next to me saying, ‘Here you go, now do this, it’s your next step, go for it.” – Reem Acra

‘Football is not about suffering. It’s about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.’ – Johan Cruyff

‘I always make my dreams into goals.’ – DJ Khaled

‘I feel to invite women everywhere to rise to the great potential within you. I do not ask that you reach beyond your capacity. I hope you will not nag yourselves with thoughts of failure. I hope you will not try to set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.’ – O. J. Simpson

‘You have to find out what’s right for you, so it’s trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.’ – Teri Garr

‘With a fast pace world and wanting to reach and accomplish goals sometimes we neglect to pause and just enjoy the moment.’ – Paul Millsap

‘We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.’ – Ryan Holiday

‘It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.’ – Benjamin E. Mays

‘If a negative atmosphere pervades where you live or work, go elsewhere. Seek out friends, business associates, and mentors with positive attitudes who share your goals and best interests.’ – Richard M. DeVos

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

‘Do what’s best for you, and do it to the best of your ability – go after your goals like nobody’s business.’ – Michael Oher

‘Before dance came into my life, I don’t really remember having any major goals or dreams of wanting to be anything.’ – Misty Copeland

‘You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.’ – Steve Garvey

‘People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.’ – Thomas Mann

‘If you’re not playing with any confidence, then you’re not going to play well at all. You’ve always got to have that inner confidence, and that comes with the goals.’ – Jamie Vardy

‘I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.’ – Diego Maradona

‘If you’re climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don’t look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don’t think you’re progressing until you step back and see how high you’ve really gone.’ – Donny Osmond

‘Life’s a balancing act. You have multiple roles and goals, and you can do it all – just not all at once.’ – Denise Morrison

‘I actually began my career by convincing my parents to let me be an actress when I was 12 with a PowerPoint presentation describing acting and my goals.’ – Sydney Sweeney

‘Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present.’ – Paul Kalanithi

‘I have become a fatalist in life, so I don’t try to set goals.’ – Ajith Kumar

‘You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. 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.’ – Rosalynn Carter

‘Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.’ – George Lucas

‘Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.’ – Alveda King

‘Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.’ – John Dewey

‘Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘We don’t aim high enough with our goals. We all have more in us, and we are all capable of aiming higher.’ – Jesse Itzler

‘Where there is peace, there is sports; where there is sports, there is peace. Peace is what allows us, especially young people, to dream, go after one’s goals and prepare you for the next challenge in life.’ – Kim Yuna

‘When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They’re playing the sprint. They’re not worried about lifetime value and retention. They’re worried about short-term goals.’ – Gary Vaynerchuk

‘Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals – however mundane or lofty they may be.’ – Jack Canfield

‘You don’t quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.’ – Daniel Cormier

‘You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.’ – Kumail Nanjiani

‘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

‘I make goals that are motivational, that are specific, that are realistic.’ – Morten Andersen

‘A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.’ – Bo Bennett

‘Don’t set time limits for achieving goals. They should transcend time.’ – Dan Pena

‘I think the American Dream used to be achieving one’s goals in your field of choice – and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow.’ – Buzz Aldrin

‘I’ve always made that push for me to be positive and stay forward with my goals.’ – Gervonta Davis

‘Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.’ – Donald Rumsfeld

‘The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one’s children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.’ – Leonard Boswell

‘I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‘Independent Women,’ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.’ – Beyonce Knowles

‘No matter how much it hurts, you gotta stay focused on what you’re there for and your goals, just don’t give up.’ – Stephen Thompson

‘Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.’ – Thalia

‘Recast your current problems into proactive goals.’ – Suze Orman

‘No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.’ – Brian Tracy

‘For years, I’ve worn my dainty gold bracelets with inspirational sayings and encouraging one-liners to motivate me in my career. I liked to look down at my wrist and be reminded of my goals.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest.’ – Howard Graham Buffett

‘Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.’ – Les Brown

‘I’ve learned that if I only put my mind to one thing that I can get tunnel vision. Then I may not be as open to other opportunities because I’m so focused on one thing. I think what’s worked better for me personally is I have three goals every day: be nice, work hard, and make friends.’ – Gigi Hadid

‘Sometimes in football you have to score goals.’ – Thierry Henry

‘There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.’ – Pete Maravich

‘Ultimately, the team has to come first even though we all have individual goals and preferences.’ – Bill Belichick

‘Partnership is a necessity if we are to reach our goals.’ – Eric Adams

‘You have to get uncomfortable to meet your goals.’ – Joe Maddon

‘Decide who you are and what your goals entail – then go for the roses. Life has little regard for those who waste time.’ – Jon Huntsman, Sr.

‘I believe the most important thing for the defender is to take the ball away from the opposing team, no matter what, and not to allow any space or give any occasions for opponents to score goals.’ – Giorgio Chiellini

‘I am the sort of player that likes to create goals. I think a lot of my team-mates know me as a player who is not selfish.’ – Mesut Ozil

‘Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers… Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.’ – Garry Wills

‘Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.’ – Haim Ginott

‘You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.’ – Jerry West

‘Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘I am a striker, and people expect strikers to score goals. But I don’t see myself as a striker.’ – Dimitar Berbatov

‘You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you’re excited for the day? That’s one of my main goals in life.’ – Kirsten Dunst

‘For aspiring actors out there, I would say stay focused and don’t let anyone pull you away from your goals. Shoot for the stars so that if you ever fall short you can land on the clouds.’ – Ryan Guzman

‘There’s no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people.’ – Al Sharpton

‘I know that my life story is an inspirational one and one that can, hopefully, help others achieve goals in their own lives.’ – Montel Vontavious Porter

‘Goals determine what you’re going to be.’ – Julius Erving

”Shake It Up’ definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.’ – Zendaya

‘By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you’ve achieved – and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses – you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.’ – Jack Canfield

‘There’s nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.’ – Paloma Faith

‘Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘I’ve always loved watching movies and pageants. As I grew up, my dreams turned into goals and I started working towards that direction. I took one step at a time and luckily, things worked out in my favour.’ – Srinidhi Shetty

‘Monetary policy will, as always, respond to the economy’s twists and turns so as to promote, as best as we can in an uncertain economic environment, the employment and inflation goals.’ – Janet Yellen

‘If you set goals for yourself, and you’re like a lot of other people, you probably realize it’s not that your goals are physically impossible that’s keeping you from achieving them; it’s that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them. It’s physically possible to lose weight. It’s physically possible to exercise more.’ – Daniel Goldstein

‘The global commitment for the Sustainable Development Goals offers a profound opportunity to tackle the structural, social, and economic changes needed to end AIDS.’ – Tedros Adhanom

‘There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘I’m a Gemini, and my attention span is limited. So, I don’t dwell on long-term goals.’ – R. Madhavan

‘There’s no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there’s been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I’ve always believed in the separation of church and state.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘It’s common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I’m going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.’ – Joy Mangano

‘My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.’ – Reba McEntire

‘My mother does not give up and she never has on anything. I love her zest for life. She has never ever let me accept defeat when it comes to goals that I’ve had or even if it is just making sure that I never lose my zest for life.’ – Sameera Reddy

‘I want to score more goals; the main ambition is goals.’ – Marcus Rashford

‘You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.’ – Johnny Bench

‘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.’ – Jim Rohn

‘You cannot score 10 goals from 10 shots – that’s impossible – but I am trying.’ – Mohamed Salah

‘After accepting the captaincy at the beginning of the 1998 season, I immediately set high but attainable goals for the West Indies cricket team and myself.’ – Brian Lara

‘When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.’ – Sunil Chhetri

‘The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.’ – Ken Blanchard

‘There’s nothing wrong with being driven. And there’s nothing wrong with putting yourself first to reach your goals.’ – Shonda Rhimes

‘Small nations have no time for small goals – they have to think big in order to become contributors.’ – Kersti Kaljulaid

‘I feel we have achieved the goals that we set out to achieve.’ – J-Hope

‘I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen.’ – Ciara

‘The truth is that I don’t have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more.’ – Lionel Messi

‘Just finding the right balance of career, family, personal goals, personal feelings. All of that is part of life and part of growing up.’ – Fabolous

‘It’s exciting setting goals and moving forward with them.’ – Amber Frey

‘So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.’ – Michael Clarke Duncan

‘Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.’ – Kajol

‘107 caps isn’t bad for someone who isn’t ‘a top, top player’, is it? I never expected to get that amount of caps. When I made my debut, I set myself the personal target of trying to get 50 caps and score 10 goals if I could. So to have 107 is something I am really proud of, particularly being among those names.’ – Steven Gerrard

‘Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.’ – Hans Kung

‘Goal-setting and achieving those goals – that’s just what I do.’ – Lisa Leslie

‘Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.’ – Harold Washington

‘A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime – and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.” – Ted Williams

‘I must always try to do better because perfectionism, and the need to always have new goals and achieve them, is a state of mind that brings profound meaning to life.’ – Giorgio Armani

‘Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.’ – Felipe VI of Spain

‘P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That’s the human dashboard.’ – Martin Seligman

‘To people outside it’s always more important who scores the goals. If you do an amazing block as a defender which saves a goal, maybe that will be remembered. But nothing else.’ – Antonio Rudiger

‘Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘I don’t think a forward has ever won a title for anyone. It’s about the defence, how many goals you concede.’ – Tony Adams

‘Connecticut’s first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.’ – Christopher Dodd

‘I don’t think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn’t have exclusionary rules, we wouldn’t have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn’t have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There’s an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.’ – Alan Dershowitz

‘You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.’ – Joel Parkinson

‘If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.’ – Brian Tracy

‘The two goals in the 2002 final were, for me, the best feeling. It was beautiful.’ – Ronaldo

‘The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.’ – Pele

‘Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.’ – Les Brown

‘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.’ – Archibald Cox

‘I don’t really like too much credit. I know nobody’s going to believe this, but I’d rather be able to score goals and nobody saw or even spoke about it. That would be just about the perfect world for me.’ – Bradley Wright-Phillips

‘There is still much work to be done to help our students secure good-paying jobs and achieve their ultimate goals, and in Congress, I’ll continue to support Career and Technical Education programs.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms, carry out your plan.’ – Paul J. Meyer

‘If you win while scoring goals, then you leave happy, but the most important thing is always the team. I do not think just of me.’ – Luis Suarez

‘Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.’ – Louis Farrakhan

‘I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I’m going to work toward those goals.’ – Magic Johnson

‘All I can do is do my best: score goals, give assists, and do my best for my team.’ – Sadio Mane

‘To me, scoring goals was just like other boys might regard delivering papers. I just did it – every day.’ – Brian Clough

‘I try and set goals and stick to them.’ – Bryson DeChambeau

‘What I’ve always tried to do is pick short term goals.’ – Ronnie Coleman

‘Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.’ – Robert Greene

‘I’m not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too.’ – Ruben Studdard

‘Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.’ – Doug Larson

‘We’ve been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic – and necessary – goals.’ – Oliver North

‘That’s why we love football: it’s not about the money or about the hairstyle or the dancing. We want to see beautiful goals, great tackles, fair play, and all this stuff.’ – Paul Pogba

‘Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise.’ – Paul Samuelson

‘We need to put goals in front of us and move towards them.’ – Oleksandr Usyk

‘Women should realise their strength and set goals.’ – Sudha Murty

‘You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.’ – Ted Turner

‘I set my own goals higher than what anybody else has set for me.’ – Cordae

‘It would be a joke to compare Gerd Muller to other strikers. What he achieved, the number of games and the goals scored, is unique. That’s what I have told him in person.’ – Miroslav Klose

‘Every time you step onto the field, you have to set goals. My goals are to either score a goal, to have an assist, or to play well.’ – Alex Morgan

‘I grew up a huge jock, a lot of basketball and football. We had a pond in my back yard growing up, and we played a lot of hockey, too. I loved to score goals.’ – Andy Grammer

‘As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.’ – LeBron James

‘As each country looks to meet their emissions reduction, energy efficiency, or renewable energy goals, they will look to cities as places where transformational change can make the most difference.’ – Patricia Espinosa

‘Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you’ve become.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.’ – Jocko Willink

‘I think it’s always unfair, but, if you are Neymar or Messi or Suarez, people expect every week back-to-back goals or brilliant performances.’ – Edgar Davids

‘It’s fun scoring goals, but I also like to stop them.’ – Kelley O’Hara

‘One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals.’ – Ellen Stofan

‘It takes a long time to free oneself from chatter – goals, social media, image, persona. And if you’re able to move through in that way, you can actually start trying to create from a different place.’ – Sandra Oh

‘People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them.’ – Tony Robbins

‘Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.’ – Venus Williams

‘Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.’ – Ryan White

‘Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.’ – Barack Obama

‘Since self-control is vital to reaching long-term goals, befriending people with willpower could be the secret to success. Whether you’re tempted to skip that workout at the gym, or you’re considering blowing this month’s budget, spending time with a disciplined friend could boost your motivation to maintain healthy habits.’ – Amy Morin

‘I hope the millions of people I’ve touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.’ – Michael Jordan

‘It is no exaggeration to say that Syria holds the key for nearly all of America’s foreign policy goals in the Middle East. As Syria goes, so goes the region.’ – Reza Aslan

‘My message always is: No matter where you are from, no matter what past you have, it is all about your future and your goals.’ – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

‘If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.’ – Oprah Winfrey

‘I want people to see that there are happy endings, that we do achieve our goals, that it’s never too late.’ – Bebe Buell

‘If a goalkeeper can save you 15-20 points a season, his value is high. It’s like a striker scoring 20 goals a season.’ – Bruce Grobbelaar

‘School was not a good experience. I would get bullied. It was really hard for me to get along with people who didn’t have the same goals, so I just wanted to get to California.’ – Ava Max

‘A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late ’80s agreed that ’employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.’ A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the ’90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.’ – Barbara Ehrenreich

‘From the beginning of my time in football, the common thread has always been teamwork and togetherness. That’s what’s going to help you achieve your goals in the end.’ – Kasper Schmeichel

‘Your ability to communicate is an important tool in your pursuit of your goals, whether it is with your family, your co-workers or your clients and customers.’ – Les Brown

‘My time at Real Madrid wasn’t a failure. I played 120 matches, I scored 28 goals, and I played an average of 30 games a season. What’s more, I won three trophies: La Liga, a Copa del Rey, and a Supercopa de Espana.’ – Kaka

‘Year-end goals are terrific! Affirmations with goals are even better! And goals, affirmations, along with visualization is even more effective!’ – Dan Pena

‘I would like to score goals in every game.’ – Son Heung-min

‘It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.’ – Fred Allen

‘A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That’s why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.’ – Marcus Buckingham

‘Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.’ – Urvashi Rautela

‘Before anyone learns my last name, they always assume I have some type of Latin background in me somewhere. I love it! I think the Latin culture is sexy. It’s one of my goals to learn to speak Spanish one day; then I will really be able to fool people!’ – Torrey DeVitto

‘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

‘It doesn’t matter who scores the goals, just that we win the games.’ – Neymar

‘We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.’ – Stephen Covey

‘Success isn’t about reaching your goals; it’s about striving for things, like the joy of trying to raise a family, trying to be a successful singer, trying to write good songs, trying to be a better person. It’s that old thing about life being about the journey, not the destination.’ – Jimmy Barnes

‘People often say I have so much energy, that I never stop; but that’s what it takes to accomplish your goals.’ – Curtis Jackson

‘Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.’ – Denis Waitley

‘I was only interested in scoring goals. I wasn’t interested in anything else.’ – Gary Lineker

‘The more goals you concede ultimately results in the bottom three, not the more goals you score.’ – Sam Allardyce

‘My formula is not thinking about what I’m doing; it’s about still having fun and making music. I don’t go into the studio with a thought pattern or certain goals in mind – sometimes I’ll start with drums, other times I’ll start with the piano – but it’s all done spontaneously, so nothing is premeditated, and nothing takes a long time.’ – Zaytoven

‘I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.’ – Jewel

‘Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer – not the nail!’ – E. Joseph Cossman

‘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.’ – Alberto Salazar

‘Nobody is guaranteed tomorrow, but why not have goals that are cool and motivational?’ – Morten Andersen

‘In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!’ – Peggy Whitson

‘A relationship succeeds when obstacles are met with communication and resolution. A relationship flourishes when we take the beloved as our teacher. Shared goals create a transformative, interwoven path.’ – Alex Grey

‘I don’t set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.’ – Michael J. Fox

‘The Big Ten championship game is one of our goals year in and year out. So that’s just the focus.’ – Ryan Day

‘I think one of the big mistakes people make is to have fame as one of their main goals. That is the biggest mistake when you’re creating art.’ – Hope Sandoval

‘My character in ‘True Grit’ would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.’ – Hailee Steinfeld

‘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.’ – Linda M. Godwin

‘My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don’t be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.’ – Teri Hatcher

‘Ideas, dreams, and goals morph as we experience life, so I’m not sure I can look at it like there’s something I haven’t yet achieved since I will always be striving for something more.’ – Jessi Combs

‘I’m competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don’t really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.’ – Lucas Grabeel

‘If you are on the front foot playing attacking football and you want to score goals, that is what people want to pay money to watch.’ – Dwight Yorke

‘I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I’m achieving my goals.’ – Elie Saab

‘There’s a lot of goals I’ve set in the WWE that I want to accomplish. I’m always setting goals for myself, and someday I want to be in the Hall of Fame.’ – A.J. Styles

‘It’s always tough to play against teams that bunker or ‘park the bus’ inside the 18-yard box, but we always try to focus on our game and how we can overcome the obstacles that the game presents to continue to get better and score goals.’ – Ali Krieger

‘We don’t press to gain possession. We press to score goals.’ – Jesse Marsch

‘I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly ‘legitimate’ state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals.’ – Ismail Haniyeh

‘At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘The most successful cultural diplomacy strategy integrates people-to-people or arts/culture/media-to-people interactions into the basic business of diplomacy. The programs in Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran all contribute to core goals of U.S. policy in those countries.’ – Cynthia P. Schneider

‘As for goals, I don’t set myself those anymore. I’m not one of these ‘I must have achieved this and that by next year’ kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.’ – Paul Kane

‘I try to always motivate young kids who want to be singers or actors or whatever it is they want to be that anything is possible with hard work. It doesn’t matter where you’re from or what language you speak – as long as you work hard, you can achieve those goals.’ – Prince Royce

‘I’m not happy until I’m going forward and accomplishing goals.’ – Sheamus

‘It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.’ – Fabrizio Moreira

‘I started to play, like all kids do, not as a goalkeeper. I liked scoring goals; in the end, it’s all about scoring goals.’ – Gianluigi Buffon

‘One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.’ – Taylor Swift

‘If you don’t have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won’t reach them or will quit trying.’ – Brett Hoebel

‘You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.’ – RJ Mitte

‘I didn’t have any fixed goals when I joined the film industry. I don’t particularly feel ‘successful,’ but I am grateful that my career is going well.’ – Alia Bhatt

‘Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.’ – Yasser Arafat

‘My dream is to touch the ball five times and score five goals. That’s my biggest dream.’ – Erling Haaland

‘In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.’ – Ben Horowitz

‘Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.’ – Jim Rohn

‘Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.’ – Ralph Marston

‘The world went by, and we didn’t get caught up in all the other things, because we didn’t have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.’ – Peggy Fleming

‘Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.’ – Brian Tracy

‘I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.’ – Virat Kohli

‘Football has been good to me. Everyone has their destiny, but you have to make use of the opportunities. I have spent 15 years at the top of my game. It makes me happy. I love the game. I love scoring goals. But I have always taken it seriously. It is not what the game gives you, it is what you give it.’ – George Weah

‘Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.’ – Erskine Bowles

‘Women often live according to rules they get from magazines or media. For example, if I don’t have kids by the age of 30, there must be something wrong with me. Goals are great to have, but having too many expectations won’t work, and worse, it will alienate your partner.’ – Rachel Hollis

‘Politics is the art of achieving political goals – of achieving what is possible in a given situation – that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.’ – Adam Michnik

‘I’m never going to be in a comfort zone. I always want to be a better player, person. I want to help my team get the goals that we are aiming for.’ – Javier Hernandez

‘I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.’ – Natalie du Toit

‘I didn’t start out planning to be Mr. Olympia I just wanted to be the best that I could be, but my goals changed as I went along. I wanted to be the British champion, and then I wanted to be a pro, then Mr. Olympia.’ – Dorian Yates

‘How can you create a team and bring all these egos together? The main goal for Manchester United is for them to play well – and not have a player saying, ‘I play well; I scored two goals’. Because if I score two goals, but three goals go into our net, then we lose.’ – Johan Cruyff

‘I’m not a person that sets a long-term goal. My goals are on an everyday basis.’ – K. L. Rahul

‘If we can go some way to creating a vibrant anaerobic digestion industry here in the U.K., we will be reaching our goals both in terms of economics and the environment.’ – Jacob Rothschild

‘We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.’ – Maxwell Maltz

‘When I was a young boy I wanted to play for Newcastle United, I wanted to wear the number nine shirt and I wanted to score goals at St James’ Park. I’ve lived my dream and I realise how lucky I’ve been to have done that.’ – Alan Shearer

‘Breakaway goals are fun. When you score a quick one in front of the net, it just happens, but during a breakaway, there’s about one or two seconds where you’re not sure.’ – Sidney Crosby

‘One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit – boom! – and I’m down and out. What a way to die!’ – Charles R. Swindoll

‘You can have great ideas, and you can have all the right policy goals. But unless you’re expanding who is included in the political process, you won’t connect the two.’ – Michelle Wu

‘I think as long as I feel good and am able to perform on a high level, I will keep playing because I love football so much. After that, I have many options but haven’t set any goals.’ – Manuel Neuer

‘Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.’ – Zig Ziglar

‘It wasn’t until I was at 39 that I joined my first real hockey team. Which was great. I scored a couple of goals here and there, but I wasn’t the most graceful thing you’ve ever seen.’ – Aden Young

‘I love to go on the field, and I want to score 100 goals every game, if I can. But it’s also my job, and when I finish my job, I have a life. I have a family.’ – Carlos Vela

‘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.’ – Rosalynn Carter

‘Like I’ve said many times before, I’m always more likely to remember goals for their importance rather than if they’re beautiful or not. Goals scored in finals, for example.’ – Lionel Messi

‘My goals as governor are to help all North Carolinians be better educated, healthier and have more money in their pockets so that they can live more abundant, purposeful lives.’ – Roy Cooper

‘Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘The reason we have so much talent in Silicon Valley building and investing in for-profit technology companies is that markets richly reward successful ideas, no matter who invents them. But to remain competitive in a free market, companies must exercise discipline to meet quantitative goals and eventually become cashflow positive.’ – Joe Lonsdale

‘You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.’ – Les Brown

‘Disability should not be considered a hindrance to achieving one’s goals.’ – Brian Lara

‘An election is a collective call to wisdom and a collective call to action. It represents a renewal and a recommitment to the goals and hopes of a shared and egalitarian society. It represents the diverse and yet singular urges of the people and the Republic of India. This makes the very act of voting a sacred act.’ – Ram Nath Kovind

‘Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.’ – Trent Reznor

‘I love Messi with the ball at his feet: he scores goals and does all the rest, too. But Cristiano’s numbers can’t be ignored. It’s a cruel comparison. Both of them deserve respect.’ – Ronaldo

‘A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They’ll become myopic. They’ll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.’ – Daniel H. Pink

‘Honestly, with stats and things like that, I try not to think about them. I just find that the more you think about goals and assists – what you need to do and accomplish – the more you tend to fall short. When you hope for something and you want something, it comes to you.’ – Alex Morgan

‘We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn’t always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child’s learning.’ – Heidi Hayes Jacobs

‘My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.’ – Rebecca Lobo

‘During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I’m proud to say that these goals have been achieved.’ – Lennox Lewis

‘I’m not willing to compromise my goals for monetary value.’ – Ben Askren

‘Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.’ – Jennifer Hudson

‘Every player wants to be as complete as possible and goals for a central midfielder are very important.’ – Andres Iniesta

‘One of my goals is to play a villain in a Bond film. People ask me if I want to be a Bond girl, and I say, ‘No, I want to be the villain.’ I’m waiting for that call!’ – Jessica Chastain

‘I’m always bragging, always laughing with my Spain team-mates at Barcelona, saying I’ll take 30 per cent possession and two goals – a win is a win. It’s football.’ – Toni Duggan

‘Of course I have said, till I am blue in the face – people don’t lack goals, passion, grit, or drive – they lack leadership!’ – Dan Pena

‘Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I’m urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they’re not critical to their most important goals.’ – Robert Pozen

‘Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best – I suggest to you – move in the opposite direction.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That’s what I wished someone would’ve done for me.’ – Charlie Puth

‘If people aren’t clear on what business you’re in, what you’re trying to accomplish, your values, your goals, then shame on you. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t involve them. It’s just your responsibility to make sure that that’s clear.’ – Ken Blanchard

‘Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don’t want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from day one have operated with impeccable nonviolence and clear goals.’ – Al Sharpton

‘Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.’ – Adam D’Angelo

‘Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘Every financial worry you want to banish and financial dream you want to achieve comes from taking tiny steps today that put you on a path toward your goals.’ – Suze Orman

‘If you work towards goals, everything is achievable.’ – Isa Guha

‘Reducing a product’s definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity – orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.’ – Alan Cooper

‘Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.’ – April Gornik

‘There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren’t a lot who get to see them realized.’ – Tyler Perry

‘The sun doesn’t shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we’re going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.’ – Burton Richter

‘To achieve great goals, you all have to walk in the same direction.’ – Marco Verratti

‘The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘This fan thing doesn’t really have any effect on my career goals. You know, I’ll still be training fighters and haven’t made any career plans yet. Just like I hadn’t made any career plans before I fought Maccarinelli. I’ll see how it goes, see how I feel. I always listen to my body.’ – Roy Jones Jr.

‘Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.’ – Denis Waitley

‘A lot of people said I would never make it, and this and that, I’d never be a top 10 fighter, that I’d never fight for a title. Just stuff like that. Achieving all those goals and being the person that I am, this is going against everything everyone said I couldn’t do.’ – Derrick Lewis

‘True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

‘My first three years at United were pretty much flawless. In the first we won the treble and I finished top scorer: I was walking on cloud nine. I came back the next year and scored 26 goals.’ – Dwight Yorke

‘Since 1993, I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that ‘gay’ is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman’s on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person.’ – Alan K. Simpson

‘Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.’ – Les Brown

‘You have a lot of individual goals, I think everybody does.’ – Christian McCaffrey

‘We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you’re anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.’ – Andrew J. Bernstein

‘A nascent economy needs a transparent and accountable government and an efficient civil service to help meet social needs. Its people need jobs and a belief in their country’s future. A surfeit of aid has been shown to be unable to help achieve these goals.’ – Dambisa Moyo

‘The beauty of having goals in life is that it drives you and when that is lost you lose a lot of meaning in life.’ – Abhinav Bindra

‘My teammates have put me in all different kinds of positions to score goals, and I can’t say it enough, and I really through and through believe it in my heart that I’m only as good as my teammates allow me to be.’ – Abby Wambach

‘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.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘Once social media was introduced, it enabled a new way for people, particularly the younger generation, to connect with one another, based on common interests, goals and even values.’ – Raymond Arroyo

‘Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus’ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.’ – Steve Jobs

‘It’s always been a battle for me between personal goals and wanting to be able to share the success I’ve had with my family. And I guess as I’ve gotten older, I’ve kind of realized, you know, you can do all these cool things, but if you don’t have people in your life to share it with, what’s the point?’ – Jordan Burroughs

‘I have tried to convince the players that if we work on certain things in training, they will happen in games and we will score goals from them.’ – Mikel Arteta

‘You have to be vigorous. That’s the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and don’t take no for an answer.’ – Nick Cannon

‘I’m not one for writing down my goals on paper.’ – Shane Lowry

‘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.’ – Chris Evert

‘If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.’ – Jack Canfield

‘There are goals that I had set out for myself as an artist. I have accomplished some of them – becoming accepted all over the world – however, other parts of my goals have not been completed.’ – Jimmy Cliff

‘People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.’ – Brian Tracy

‘Through a respectful exchange of ideas and emphasis on shared goals, I am confident we can put many of our disagreements behind us to ensure a better future for all Americans.’ – Todd Young

‘It’s scoring goals that’s great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.’ – Lionel Messi

‘Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.’ – Pele

‘Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.’ – Gary Ryan Blair

‘Goals come in bunches. When you’re hot, things go in. Then there will be times where you go through a span where you have about 20 games without a goal and it’s just how it is.’ – Brad Marchand

‘Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don’t think we can achieve something beyond what we’re qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?’ – Simon Sinek

‘I want to trace my own path by doing the things I have been doing, winning titles, reaching goals.’ – Neymar

‘For me, I just set little goals for myself and stay on that kind of track and surround myself with positive people along with my teammates. I just kind of have my goals and my dreams, and this is something that we’ve all been working for our entire lives, so it is kind of easy to wake up and want to better myself every day towards that goal.’ – Ali Krieger

‘I want to get in the 100 club for scoring goals in the Premier League – I think about that a lot and the quicker I get into that group, the better, because not just anybody gets into that.’ – Darren Bent

‘Having the strength to tune out negativity and remain focused on what I want gives me the will and confidence to achieve my goals.’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it’s about enjoying a damn day on the movie set… I live in a complete state of grace.’ – Peter Weller

‘Wellcome Trust focuses on supporting outstanding researchers, accelerating the application of research, and exploring medicine in historical and cultural contexts. We believe passionately that breakthroughs emerge when the most talented researchers are given the resources and freedom they need to pursue their goals.’ – Mark Walport

‘Recycling more plastics can help local businesses and expand jobs while supporting the goals of sustainability.’ – Kevin de Leon

‘If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.’ – Paul J. Meyer

‘What you want in foreign policy is clear, well-defined goals.’ – Ted Lieu

‘While government and public-health advocates strive to educate the public, and prevent disease, the food industry frequently acts in opposition to those goals, producing processed foods that are high in sugar, salt, artificial ingredients and calories.’ – Margaret Cuomo

‘God created me to delight people with my goals.’ – Romario

‘I love people who have goals. Somebody who’s passionate about life and does their own thing.’ – Amanda Bynes

‘I’ve got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I’ve got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I’m not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.’ – Nikki Sixx

‘As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you’re screwed.’ – Drew Carey

‘It’s not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it’s what they’re born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.’ – Jack Canfield

‘The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.’ – Og Mandino

‘I would like to stress this point undoubtedly: France sees the Arab Spring as auspicious. The Arab Spring holds out tremendous hope – hope for democracy and the rule of law, hope for peace and stability, hope for better future in which every person can pursue goals commensurate with his or her needs, talents and ambitions.’ – Alain Juppe

‘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

‘What interests Chiellini and I is not conceding goals. We’re able to create chances and it makes us happy when we take them.’ – Leonardo Bonucci

‘America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘You have to shoot, to want to score goals no matter how. Just score that goal! You can’t be afraid to miss.’ – Dennis Bergkamp

‘When you do things right and you do things for the team, your individual goals, they come.’ – Kyler Murray

‘You just want to keep playing consistently now and keep working hard and I’m sure the goals will come.’ – Wayne Rooney

‘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

‘I have never played a game for the national title. Our goals always have been to win the Big Ten title and the Rose Bowl. If we do that, then we consider it a successful season.’ – Bo Schembechler

‘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

‘At the surface, many people’s goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the ‘why’ is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.’ – Brett Hoebel

‘All good performance starts with clear goals.’ – Ken Blanchard

‘I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them – how I get the ball into the back of the net – might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.’ – Michael Owen

‘The fact that the underlying laws of physics are deterministic and impersonal does not mean that at the human level we can’t talk about ideas about reasons and goals and purposes and free will.’ – Sean M. Carroll

‘Small business people are people with goals and values that can’t be calculated on a profit and loss statement.’ – Linda McMahon

‘I found people that were willing to push me. I was like, ‘These are my goals. I need you to get me here.’ I don’t need any excuses. I won’t make any excuses. I’m over making excuses.’ – Julie Ertz

‘At the core, coaching authenticity is complicated – some might say impossible. Telling someone to be authentic sounds pretty low calorie, especially to a founder plowing through a list of product and operational goals. But it’s important.’ – Scott Weiss

‘I have goals.’ – Abby Lee Miller

‘I love watching Messi with the ball at his feet. He scores goals and everything else.’ – Ronaldo

‘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

‘We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.’ – Fred Thompson

‘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.’ – Hugh Laurie

‘I wish I could score as many goals as I can in ‘FIFA.” – Ali Krieger

‘So, individually, my goal is to score a lot of goals and help Neymar. He can help us raise a lot of trophies, so we have to take care of him.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘As a scientist, I play in the top league – the Olympics, the World Championships – and I want to be in the lead. As a runner, I set personal goals, and I want to push beyond my own personal limits. I was very happy when I practiced for several months and then reached my goal to run a marathon in 2:50.’ – Wolfgang Ketterle

‘The most important thing is to be a midfielder first, not scoring goals. You have to make the game, make an assist for the team, and if you can score, it’s a plus for the team.’ – Paul Pogba

‘It’s very important where you put your goals.’ – Judit Polgar

‘Goals help you channel your energy into action.’ – Les Brown

‘But when you come from a large, wonderful family, there’s always a way to achieve your goals.’ – Wilma Rudolph

‘The most difficult quality is to make the right decision. Because you can be quick, you can be strong, you can jump incredibly, you can have the best shots and you can be able to score goals from 50 yards, but if you don’t know when to shoot, when to run or when to jump, you’re lost.’ – Ander Herrera

‘What needs to happen in a public health crisis? The federal government must establish a national roadmap with clear goals and evidence-based policy guidance.’ – Leana S. Wen

‘I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.’ – Mario Andretti

‘Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who’d rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.’ – Karen Armstrong

‘I want everything, but I can say I have a lot of goals and I have a lot of wishes, but it doesn’t depend on me. If everything depends on me, I am doing it. Sometimes it just depends on how everything is going to go.’ – Vasyl Lomachenko

‘Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you’re losing because when you’re a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you’re a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.’ – Al Lopez

‘It was one of those goals that’s invariably a goal.’ – Denis Law

‘It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals.’ – Robert Conklin

‘Forget goals. Value the process.’ – Jim Bouton

‘Life’s up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.’ – Marsha Sinetar

‘Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.’ – Bo Bennett

‘Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.’ – Bo Bennett

‘We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.’ – Bill Richardson

‘We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.’ – Burt Rutan

‘But if the vision is strong enough, and your goals are steady, and you believe, pretty soon you bring other people with you.’ – Mike Rounds

‘We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals.’ – Debbie Stabenow

‘Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program’s long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program’s fundamental goals.’ – Patty Murray

‘We simply must look beyond partisan goals and find common ground as Americans. It is imperative that the Members of Congress recognize that partisanship will not serve the American people.’ – Mike Crapo

‘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.’ – Dorothy Stratten

‘We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.’ – Abu Abbas

‘The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be – how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.’ – Herbert A. Simon

‘I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be a real well-respected actress whom people know they can rely on to do a good job… whether they like me as a person or not!’ – Lynda Carter

‘To meet my goals, I couldn’t let up when I was playing tennis.’ – Tracy Austin

‘I’m a person that doesn’t have that many goals or plans. I feel like I’m the wind and I blow through life; it’s whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I’m happy and I embrace it.’ – Bai Ling

‘I don’t set goals. Like, that’s what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that’s what I’d do. Or design clothes.’ – Ayumi Hamasaki

‘It’s funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists’ goals.’ – Craig Bruce

‘My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.’ – Mickey Rivers

‘I’ve reached most my goals and when my career is over I will have many other things to do.’ – Thomas Muster

‘I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn’t, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.’ – Debbie Meyer

‘I knew all these people had the same goals I did, but the one that worked the hardest would come out on top. That’s what drove me all the time. But I had fun. I did better every day, and that’s what made it fun.’ – Debbie Meyer

‘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.’ – Steve Kerr

‘Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance – these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.’ – Isaiah Berlin

‘One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.’ – Tammy Bruce

‘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.’ – Brian McBride

‘Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it.’ – Just Fontaine

‘I think I’ll take my record of 13 goals to the grave.’ – Just Fontaine

‘My record of 13 goals in the World Cup finals still stands.’ – Just Fontaine

‘Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.’ – Brent Scowcroft

‘What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who’s going to do what and how we’re going to achieve the generic goals on the list.’ – Edward Tufte

‘Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.’ – Bram Cohen

‘But I it doesn’t matter who scores the goals so long as we win.’ – Steven Gerrard

‘There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.’ – Bob Menendez

‘We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals.’ – Bob Menendez

‘Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans – and there were many such bitter policy disputes – the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.’ – Allen Weinstein

‘And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.’ – Duane G. Carey

‘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.’ – Michael Shanks

‘It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals.’ – Mike Pence

‘Nobody – myself included – believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.’ – John Poindexter

‘A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.’ – Richard V. Allen

‘I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we’ll produce a movie under our company’s name.’ – Mary-Kate Olsen

‘We kinda look at this as the second or third chapter of our lives. After college, most people figure out what they want to do with their lives. But we already know what we want to do in the future and that is to continue to further our business goals.’ – Mary-Kate Olsen

‘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.’ – Dean Koontz

‘We want to obviously foster a relationship that we’re a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we’re practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they’re talking about.’ – Margaret Spellings

‘The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.’ – Jane Byrne

‘It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.’ – John L. Phillips

‘If you get a chance to be in a film, that’s great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley’s album, Building the Perfect Beast.’ – Glenn Frey

‘The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that’s what life is all about.’ – Maria Bartiromo

‘At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.’ – Cliff Stearns

‘We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.’ – Ron Kind

‘I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.’ – Nadia Comaneci

‘Very few editors worry about heresy – their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.’ – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

‘Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.’ – Jay Inslee

‘I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl.’ – Michael Strahan

‘So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn’t change my mind, because it’s football, it’s normal. What is not normal is that we haven’t been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we’ve been playing in the last few weeks.’ – Jose Mourinho

‘I just don’t want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.’ – Obie Trice

‘One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.’ – Paul Parker

‘The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.’ – Kit Williams

‘I’m at a point where I’m going where the journey leads me. I’ve set goals but I don’t get really hung up if I don’t achieve those goals right away or in my time, you know what I mean?’ – Deborah Cox

‘I don’t think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.’ – Larry Dixon

‘And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers.’ – John Hutton

‘But effective regulation at the European Union level can make a massive contribution to achieving our shared goals of improving competitiveness, jobs and growth.’ – John Hutton

‘Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.’ – Vernon Jordan

‘A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.’ – Vernon Jordan

‘Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance Americans have been given that we can reach those goals is to trust the President and his Administration at their word.’ – Patrick J. Kennedy

‘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

‘I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.’ – Kiana Tom

‘I am a goal setter and I set more goals everyday. I keep lists of goals in my office to stay on track.’ – Kiana Tom

‘I don’t think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.’ – Lou Brock

‘Hollywood is going to have to find a way of meeting those profit goals.’ – Peter Bart

‘Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.’ – Ted Lindsay

‘I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.’ – Brandi Chastain

‘Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.’ – Joe Slovo

‘Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good – that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.’ – Arne Jacobsen

‘Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.’ – Jurgen Habermas

‘My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.’ – Jessica Savitch

‘The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.’ – Gerry Adams

‘I don’t think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.’ – Sargent Shriver

‘I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.’ – Jonah Lomu

‘I’m not saying I didn’t have ample time to recover, ample time to get to my best, I felt this year I did fine. When I stepped on the field for the national team, I was ready and able to make an impact, to score goals, to create chances.’ – Tiffeny Milbrett

‘What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.’ – Grete Waitz

‘I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.’ – Michel Patini

‘I don’t set goals for myself too much, but I’m always trying to write that one great song.’ – Sheryl Crow

‘You set your goals to a point where they’re attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.’ – Rafael Palmeiro

‘I don’t have goals in life.’ – Olivier Martinez

‘Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there’s no culture of complaint.’ – Garry Trudeau

‘Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that’s this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station.’ – Umberto Guidoni

‘Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq’s national unity government.’ – John Boehner

‘As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.’ – Drew Carey

‘It wasn’t success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together – within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people’s goal.’ – Penn Jillette

‘One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I’d written.’ – Mac Davis

‘As I said this year, I didn’t try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I’m out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it’s going to end up next year.’ – Daniela Hantuchova

‘And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.’ – Willard Libby

‘I’m very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family’s long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.’ – Shaquille O’Neal

‘The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.’ – James T. Walsh

‘Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart – it doesn’t get any better than that.’ – Teddy Sheringham

‘We’re still a great team. In your mind you can understand that but, emotionally, we needed to express the same belief. We came out full of fire and scored two early goals, two really beautiful goals, and that changed everything.’ – Dennis Bergkamp

‘Apparently Iran thinks that it can continue to deceive the world in order to reach its goals.’ – Moshe Katsav

‘It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I’ve got it down I don’t it is a constant struggle.’ – Christine Lavin

‘I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.’ – Peter Shilton

‘Indeed – judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.’ – Emma Thompson

‘My job is to score goals.’ – Peter Bondra

‘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.’ – Sarah Michelle Gellar

‘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.’ – Alan Thicke

‘Most minds think from A to B to G to O, or hold goals and ambitions to keep them going.’ – Lynette Fromme

‘I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.’ – Hermann Maier

‘As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.’ – Naguib Mahfouz

‘The most unrealistic thing I’ve ever read in comics is when some group of characters calls themselves the Brotherhood of Evil or the Masters of Evil. I don’t believe any character believes their goals to be truly evil.’ – Len Wein

‘I don’t try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don’t really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different.’ – Linus Torvalds

‘I have so many goals.’ – Tyra Banks

‘Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.’ – Lech Walesa

‘Ukraine is also successfully moving toward democracy and making progress expanding freedoms and rights to its people. We can help Ukraine achieve these goals and improve its economy by normalizing trade relations.’ – Vito Fossella

‘There’s always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.’ – Tyra Banks

‘One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered.’ – Robert T. Bakker

‘My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That’s the life of a striker.’ – Ruud van Nistelrooy

‘In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.’ – Ruud van Nistelrooy

‘Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.’ – Mary Catherine Bateson

‘I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That’s one of the reasons I didn’t retire – I love playing for my country.’ – David Beckham

‘While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.’ – Peter McWilliams

‘The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.’ – Johann Most

‘Goals help you overcome short-term problems.’ – Hannah More

‘I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.’ – Bonnie Blair

‘Our team has a lot of talent. I hope that soon we will break out with four or five goals and avoid overtime.’ – Peter Bondra

‘It’s the first time it’s happened to me and maybe the last. It’s a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can’t remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.’ – Zinedine Zidane

‘Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.’ – Mike Hawkins

‘One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘The fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill; to end the bailouts; cut spending; and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won’t veto any of these things.’ – Mitch McConnell

‘Where I am now, you’re very much at everybody else’s mercy. You have no control over your career in a lot of ways. It’s just important to know what your own goals are, because that’s empowering.’ – Rose Byrne

‘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.’ – Emma Stone

‘I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London.’ – Shawn Johnson

‘The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.’ – Elisha Cuthbert

‘APA is another evolution in my career; they have unique vision and share my goals for the future. I look forward to expanding our horizons together.’ – Paul Oakenfold

‘I don’t have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.’ – John McLaughlin

‘I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.’ – Paula Radcliffe

‘When I look back, I’m definitely proud of what I did. It kind of allows me to move forward and reset my goals.’ – Katie Hoff

‘A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.’ – Mike Shinoda

‘You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.’ – Natalie du Toit

‘I would like to say I’ve achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You’re not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.’ – Brooklyn Decker

‘To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that’s what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.’ – Tiffeny Milbrett

‘The night has always been my friend. When I go out I feel good, then I always score goals.’ – Romario

‘Breakaway goals are fun.’ – Sidney Crosby

‘If I feel I’m not influencing games, not scoring goals or making goals, then that’s the time I’d pack it in.’ – Ryan Giggs

‘If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don’t see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.’ – Michael Owen

‘Game by game is how I judge myself. At the end of the season, yeah, I do look back and think about how many games I’ve been available for, how many goals I’ve scored, how I’ve contributed. But that’s what the summer’s for. For now, you just look to the next one.’ – Michael Owen

‘Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.’ – Madeleine Albright

‘Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.’ – Chris Daughtry

‘It’s not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It’s not heading for the punchline, and also it’s not about scoring goals. It’s about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.’ – Gael Garcia Bernal

‘I’m not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I’m growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.’ – Carl Lewis

‘I’ll keep doing my training and I’m sure the goals will come.’ – Wayne Rooney

‘When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.’ – Wayne Rooney

‘Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we’re wearing – if it’s red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.’ – Wayne Rooney

‘The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It’s better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.’ – Wayne Rooney

‘Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.’ – Lennox Lewis

‘Professionally, I have no major goals. That’s partly because I’m really flaky. I want things, but I don’t go after them. I’d rather they be placed in my lap.’ – Valerie Bertinelli

‘We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.’ – Alain Robert

‘For me, the American Dream was to go racing; for others, it’s to pursue whatever their goals may be.’ – Rick Mears

‘Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you’re making records, you’re dealing with musicians’ tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone’s individual pride.’ – Scott Weiland

‘I hold the record now with Dixie Dean for being the only Everton player to score three Merseyside derby goals at Anfield. I still hope to better it. Things like that, the fans never forget.’ – Timothy F. Cahill

‘My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson’s diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.’ – Shinya Yamanaka

‘I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don’t want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.’ – Oscar Pistorius

‘When I was younger, I remember thinking, ‘I have to pass this mark’ or ‘I have to get this role’ or ‘I have to do this or that’ and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.’ – Jane Seymour

‘The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn’t want to go in and train, but you can’t make it to the Olympics if you don’t train!’ – Shawn Johnson

‘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

‘The problem we’ve got now in Washington is that the goals are completely the opposite from each other.’ – Jim DeMint

‘Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals.’ – Jim DeMint

‘Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.’ – Denise Morrison

‘I never have been an anarchist, I’ve always had goals and always have acted out of love.’ – Gloria Trevi

‘If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life’s goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.’ – Camille Paglia

‘Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don’t even look at it because you’re going straight to C.’ – Greg Kinnear

‘One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I’ve done that and I couldn’t be happier.’ – Sally Pearson

‘But there’s one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn’t one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That’s part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘I don’t really have goals as far as, I want to be on a cover or something like that.’ – Kim Kardashian

‘I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don’t really walk around feeling like I’ve made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.’ – Olivia Thirlby

‘One of my goals is to play the Olympics in 2016. If you’re able to represent your country in the Olympics everyone will understand you as a player and not many people do get to go to the Olympics.’ – Lydia Ko

‘The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.’ – Mario Diaz-Balart

‘I’ve exceeded a few of my goals, but I’m behind on a couple of others.’ – Tiger Woods

‘Mainly it’s the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: ‘You scored 346 goals’ or ‘You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.” – Ian Rush

‘I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.’ – Karlie Kloss

‘Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.’ – Junior Seau

‘I have some real big goals with England.’ – Kevin Pietersen

‘Reagan’s approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.’ – Mike Royko

‘This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher – it’s a different ethos. It’s money minded, and it’s the cult of yourself. Now that’s fine, except when it falls down, and you can’t achieve your goals – through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.’ – Jane Campion

‘I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.’ – Yani Tseng

‘Marathons are good training goals.’ – Jason Bateman

‘When you do a comedy, the goals are much clearer to me.’ – Luke Wilson

‘When you start out with goals – mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically – you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It’s still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.’ – Dave Brubeck

‘I think if you set yourself specific goals, that’s quite a lot of pressure.’ – Nicholas Hoult

‘Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.’ – Barry Sanders

‘One thing for me that modeling definitely did was that you go to do a different job every day, and you are working with a completely new team of people. You have to learn how to talk to people and how to creatively achieve the same goals. I think it just hones your people skills.’ – Cat Deeley

‘I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.’ – Claudia Schiffer

‘People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.’ – Brendon Burchard

‘My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people’s lives… and hopefully make a living doing it.’ – Jordin Sparks

‘Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.’ – Holly Madison

‘Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.’ – NeNe Leakes

‘Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there’s a chance of success.’ – Peter Diamandis

‘I tend to stay healthy because I’ve been eating right and exercising. It makes life so much easier when you’re healthy. I also like to challenge myself by making my own physical goals and beating them.’ – James Maslow

‘That’s what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.’ – Joe Nichols

‘Here’s the thing, back in the day, a lot of guys would make fun of me, that I would sing and dance, that I was a cheerleader. But I kept my head on straight. I had goals.’ – Carlos Pena, Jr.

‘I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn’t much of a reality.’ – Josh Henderson

‘Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals.’ – Marc Ostrofsky

‘Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘You should never worry too much about achieving your goals, because in the long run you might not find yourself too happy when you get there.’ – Chad Channing

‘I don’t really think in terms of goals.’ – Andy Grammer

‘Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons – as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.’ – Chris Sarandon

‘We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.’ – Nicholas Negroponte

‘Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.’ – Michael Mandelbaum

‘I guess the verdict is in – I am not a sociopath. It’s not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.’ – Whitney Cummings

‘Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.’ – Frederick W. Smith

‘I have goals that I want to reach, but you can never plan what’s going to happen next.’ – Lee DeWyze

‘My life hasn’t been conventional and it hasn’t been linear. I’ve had to make it up as I’ve gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don’t accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it’s up to you to work out where you’re going and to create your own specific rules and goals.’ – Beth Ditto

”Tell to Win’ reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers’ goals.’ – Peter Guber

‘In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I’d grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn’t expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.’ – Bharati Mukherjee

‘I don’t have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I’m big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.’ – Kate Atkinson

‘I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn’t get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that’s a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.’ – Rob Kardashian

‘Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.’ – Abdolkarim Soroush

‘Poles must understand history but we must also overcome it if it is obstructing our contemporary goals.’ – Donald Tusk

‘I say to my friends, ‘Don’t just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.’ And this is the important thing.’ – Jose Manuel Barroso

‘One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.’ – Lauren Conrad

‘A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals – someone that he wouldn’t be afraid to bring home to his parents.’ – Victoria Justice

‘One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.’ – Ron Rash

‘Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven to be a terrorist, for the sake of the victims and deterring any future attacks, he or she must be brought to justice. America has done this with Timothy McVeigh and hundreds of other terrorists.’ – John Garamendi

‘Priorities are the yearly goals that I’m most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.’ – Robert Pozen

‘If you’re playing for five hours you don’t want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.’ – Ronaldinho

‘The motivation is in my heart to work toward my goals and my dreams.’ – Nonito Donaire

‘You don’t ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams.’ – Bryce Harper

‘I was born to score goals, I feel.’ – Michael Owen

‘I’m not one of those actresses that’s going to feel like I never achieved my dreams and goals and just get disgruntled and hate everything about the business. I’ve had so much fun.’ – Ming-Na Wen

‘At the end of the day, life’s about realising one’s human potential. I don’t know if I’ve realised mine, but I’ve certainly gone a long way towards realising some goals and some dreams.’ – Linton Kwesi Johnson

‘The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.’ – Aleksandar Hemon

‘Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women’s votes that will secure victory at the next election, hence the altogether delicious spectacle of Messrs Brown and Cameron vying to tell stories about broken nights and childcare as men once boasted of goals scored or pheasants bagged.’ – Allison Pearson

‘It’s an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.’ – Cesar Millan

‘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

‘I had friends growing up; there were other home-schoolers we were in touch with so we weren’t isolated, and I’ve always been happy engaged in my own projects and pursuing my own goals.’ – Christopher Paolini

‘I started ‘Storyline’ after I’d accomplished all my goals and still wasn’t happy. I’d become a ‘New York Times’ bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.’ – Donald Miller

‘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

‘Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.’ – Tom Hodgkinson

‘I believe that visualization is one of the most powerful means of achieving personal goals.’ – Harvey Mackay

‘How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their goals? What about universal preschool and after-school programs? What about changing the corporate mind-set about the time commitment it takes to move up the ladder? What about having more husbands step up and take the major load?’ – Gail Collins

‘I grew up watching my father work, and learning from him what good quality is. I took from him the passion to create beautiful and exclusive products. He also taught me to persevere if I want to reach my goals.’ – Diego Della Valle

‘There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there’s a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It’s a shame.’ – Neil Strauss

‘I’m interested in reaching the masses with my work. It’s one of my goals.’ – Ryan McGinley

‘It’s all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life’s goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose – family, career – to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.’ – Abigail Spencer

‘I would love to fall in love and get married and have beautiful children. I mean that’s one of the goals in life, I think, to have, and it’s a beautiful thing. My sister has kids and all my friends have kids. They show me their, you know their report cards. And I can show them my sports car.’ – Tiesto

‘For me, at least, all of my career goals, all of my focus, everything just shifted and the importance was my children, and that’s where all the joy came from as well.’ – Steve Carell

‘Long-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.’ – Ben Casnocha

‘I don’t need to prove that I’m some great international filmmaker. It’s not really on my list of goals.’ – Dermot Mulroney

‘Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.’ – Derek Bok

‘If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.’ – Liang Chow

‘When I sit down to write, I don’t have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another… I’m not the kind of writer who has a map.’ – Melissa Bank

‘The Global Poverty Project’s mission is to stand up for the world’s poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals and advocate meaningful change to government and corporate policies that block progress and entrench injustice.’ – Hugh Evans

‘It’s important to be driven and have goals. You want an independent woman who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to go after it. It’s attractive to me when a woman is doing what she loves. It makes me want to know more.’ – Apolo Ohno

‘I never had one day that I didn’t want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished.’ – Apolo Ohno

‘Here’s how much I know about hockey. Mike Royko and I were in a tiny bar one winter night, and the radio kept reporting goals by the Blackhawks. I mentioned how frequently the team was scoring. ‘You’re listening to the highlights,’ Royko observed.’ – Roger Ebert

‘I just get up in the morning and say: ‘Yeah man, I’m ready to score goals.” – Jermain Defoe

‘I don’t feel like I’m getting older. I think it’s the way I’ve looked after myself. I take my football seriously. I love scoring goals and I get a good feeling from it, so I’ll do whatever it takes to be fit and feel good in games.’ – Jermain Defoe

‘People know what they’re getting with me. It’s part and parcel of football that people want to see new faces, but all I can do is play games, score goals and prove I can do it. My record is there for everyone to see.’ – Jermain Defoe

‘Staying true to our goals, Question Bridge as a company and as a project is not singularly about black males. One of the things I’m so excited about Question Bridge is that my vision goes far beyond black males.’ – Jesse Williams

‘As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for ‘Charlie’s Angels’. My goals weren’t lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.’ – Ryan Reynolds

‘I think about what I’ve accomplished and my career. I care about how many wins I have and whether I’m accomplishing my goals.’ – Paula Creamer

‘I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.’ – Christine Sinclair

‘Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.’ – Daphne Koller

‘I like noise. It’s always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.’ – Moby

‘Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.’ – Russell Simmons

‘Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company’s objectives and their own personal goals.’ – Chip Conley

‘Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.’ – Sherry Argov

‘To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.’ – Beth Simone Noveck

”Thrasher’ magazine’s Skater of the Year is clearly my No. 1 goal. The only way I get that is skating. Other than that, I haven’t set that many outrageous goals. If I got Skater of the Year, that would just really add to it all and make me feel really good. Whether it’s this year, next year or five years from now, that is my goal.’ – Ryan Sheckler

‘Plus-sized women shouldn’t think of themselves as a size. They should think of themselves as women with rich goals in life. Size doesn’t mean, really, anything. You can carry your size with pride and dress in a way that you like.’ – Donatella Versace

‘What is the evolutionary value of blushing? It seems not to be to our advantage to do it, to involuntarily reveal our inner emotions. If we’re trying to manipulate or lie, actions in furtherance of individual goals as opposed to the goals of others, blushing would not seem to be helpful. And yet everyone blushes, except the psychopath.’ – Frans de Waal

‘It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal – and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.’ – Elliott Abrams

‘I had, like, two goals in my career: One was to try to get into ‘Second City.’ When I moved to Chicago, my goal was to try to work at ‘Second City.’ And beyond that, my goal was to make enough money as an actor to not do anything else but act, not have to go and wait tables again.’ – Steve Carell

‘I’m all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn’t the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.’ – Margaret Heffernan

‘Here’s the miracle: I grew up thinking, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to write ‘Superman’ someday? Wouldn’t it be great to create my own show, or work on ‘Lensman,’ or ‘Forbidden Planet?’ Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn’t have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it’s happened.’ – J. Michael Straczynski

‘One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.’ – Martin Filler

‘People often think that losing your job is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. And, in some cases, that might be true. But for me, unemployment can be the time and the motivation to finally go after my goals.’ – Homaro Cantu

‘I am a local economic revitalization strategist. But I am also a TV/radio host, and a small business owner. I find ways to use money more efficiently to realize positive goals for everyone.’ – Majora Carter

‘Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders – those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay ‘transactional’ leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.’ – Joseph Nye

‘The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.’ – Joanne Whalley

‘One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.’ – Derek Theler

‘It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is that the team reaches its goal and plays positive football.’ – Mesut Ozil

‘Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.’ – Srikumar Rao

‘I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I’d like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.’ – Cal Ripken, Jr.

‘Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you’ve started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can’t get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?’ – Joyce Meyer

‘It’s shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.’ – Lance Gross

‘I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They’ve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.’ – Josie Loren

‘Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it’s just an everyday lifestyle.’ – Hope Solo

‘I’ve got some crazy, stupid big goals. I really wanna headline arenas. I wanna have such a big crew that we’ve got to have 20 or 30 buses on the road because that’s how big the show we’re putting on is.’ – Hunter Hayes

‘I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals.’ – Liana Liberato

‘Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.’ – Kristin Armstrong

‘I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don’t like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I’ve never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.’ – Kate del Castillo

‘Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that’s what I really chased.’ – Leander Paes

‘I want to be the strongest player in the world and score a lot of goals. To do that, I have to improve in every area.’ – Mario Balotelli

‘You speak bad of me, I score goals.’ – Mario Balotelli

‘It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don’t really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I’m free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it’s, ‘Wow, that was brilliant,’ and if I do something bad, it just goes away.’ – Lena Olin

‘When you’re raising a little kid, you tell that kid to go after their goals and their dreams. And you tell them to work as hard as anybody.’ – Romeo Miller

‘Normally, when you’re working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.’ – Romola Garai

‘Where are the people who don’t have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.’ – Shiv Khera

‘Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.’ – Vinnie Jones

‘I’ve always had real trouble knowing what my actual desires and goals are. I’ve just been dragged along by fate.’ – Greg Giraldo

‘I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a group and making sure they’re aligned with Bob Iger’s goals for the Walt Disney Co. And more than anything, making sure people understand that they have a responsibility to one another.’ – Anne Sweeney

‘I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.’ – Drew Carey

‘We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.’ – Joel Osteen

‘I live off a motto that says, ‘yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery’. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I’ll be tomorrow, that’s where I’ll be.’ – Vanilla Ice

‘One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘Everyone’s goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.’ – Penn Jillette

‘I’ve always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.’ – Serj Tankian

‘The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees – things that no one country could do.’ – Ted Turner

‘I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or ‘big thinker.’ I don’t have any lofty goals.’ – Linus Torvalds

‘I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter and is always with me.’ – Frank Lampard

‘Goals never come easy. No one gives you goals.’ – Frank Lampard

‘There’s that talent thing where I can score goals, and there’s also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I’ve seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I’ve been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I’ve tried to make the most of it.’ – Frank Lampard

‘Scoring goals is the best feeling you can have. I always look up at the stand for my family straight afterwards; it means everything to me that they travel to every game.’ – Frank Lampard

‘Hamas, they are using civilians’ lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate.’ – Mosab Hassan Yousef

‘One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That’s my goal.’ – Patti Smith

‘My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if there’s something broken inside me, if there’s a hole in there, I thought: If I could just write a good song someday, then I’d be OK. You know, if I could just be on stage in front of people I’d never seen before and be validated by them.’ – Trent Reznor

‘My goals are to continue acting and also to produce some independent films in the next few years. Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.’ – Sasha Grey

‘I like men who have goals, something that they are passionate about and work hard to achieve. A good sense of humor is important too. And I like tall guys!’ – Ana Ivanovic

‘I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that’s how I check how I’m doing. It can be something simple like ‘listen,’ or ‘find your feet.’ And then afterward it’s an assessment, so in a way it’s not about booking the job or not. It’s about what I learned as an actor about that character.’ – Lupita Nyong’o

‘Goals do not get stored in your voice message or email bin. They are not going to reach out from the world wide web and remind you they exist. As a result, our goals do not get the respect they deserve.’ – Darren L Johnson

‘Movies were always the goal, but I had a lot of goals. Twelve-year-old me wanted to do everything: act and sing and paint and dance.’ – Joss Whedon

‘I would die without goals or a focus. I need something to keep me going.’ – Katrina Kaif

‘Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.’ – Suze Orman

‘When it comes to tackling your financial goals, whatever they might be, there’s no time like the present.’ – Suze Orman

‘I’m a big believer in to-do lists. I think of five things in the shower. I set goals and get my work done, but I have to plan for fun things, too. I’m always thinking about what will make my family happier. So I set up playdates and trips.’ – Heidi Klum

‘Boxing should focus on pitting champion versus champion – those are the fights that everyone wants to see. The sports also needs to work on developing new heroes and personalities. I’d like to see more vignettes on fighters, focusing on their lives, goals and stories. Boxers need to be larger than life.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.’ – Kim Yuna

‘I always set myself huge goals each year, and I’m pretty good at manifesting them, which ends up meaning I take a lot on my plate.’ – Angela Lindvall

‘I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.’ – Meryl Davis

‘Amazon’s identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.’ – George Packer

‘What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change – to be transparent about their goals for change, to align their incentives systems to drive the change, and to make sure their work environments are flexible in a way that allows men and women who choose to work to be able to achieve all of their potential.’ – Beth Brooke

‘The whole concept behind ‘Forty Chances’ is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in 40 years, you had 40 chances to succeed in what your primary goals are, you would probably be more urgent and you would be forced to change quicker.’ – Howard Graham Buffett

‘It’s disheartening to write goals from year to year, looking back only to see you are in the same place. You can make so many promises that you get sick of yourself, but what is it that God can’t do?’ – Monica Johnson

‘Singles have goals, responsibilities, deadlines, events, and friends that occupy their time, as well they should. Nonetheless, before any goals are achieved, responsibilities are fulfilled, deadlines are met, events are attended or friends are visited, God’s purpose should be accomplished.’ – Monica Johnson

‘Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.’ – Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

‘The issue I had with the Lightspeed albums was that usually the main purpose with them was to fulfil really dorky musical goals, like, ‘I wonder if I can do that,’ and it was all very personal. It was more that once I’d finished the goal of what the song was, I was kind of done. It was like ticking boxes.’ – Dev Hynes

‘Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.’ – Ertharin Cousin

‘Since coming to Congress in 1971, I have been fighting to help create an environment where the goals of the National Work and the Family Month can become a reality.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘I’m just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.’ – Scott Peters

‘I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don’t keep a tab on what my contemporaries are doing. I want to push myself as an actress and don’t want to get into the rat race. With every film, I want to grow as a person and an actress. The character I play needs to change me in real life.’ – Sonam Kapoor

‘I have stopped having goals. If you have many goals, and you don’t reach your goals, it is very upsetting, so I just think of keeping it simple, working hard and going and playing the game. But I know there are going to be very important series for Indian cricket. I will just try my best to be in my fittest form.’ – Yuvraj Singh

‘I take one day at a time. I am not someone to define my goals.’ – Vidya Balan

‘Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.’ – Bill Gates

‘Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.’ – Stephen Hawking

‘Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘It’s important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.’ – Yuichiro Miura

‘Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.’ – Henry Cloud

‘No wishes are silly, no dreams remain dreams, for those committed to clear and definitive goals.’ – Maximillian Degenerez

‘What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I’ve got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way.’ – Bill Rancic

‘Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.’ – Jack Canfield

‘An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day – just before going to sleep – to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.’ – Jack Canfield

‘I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry.’ – Edward Lampert

‘Especially when you talk about the power of documentary filmmaking, you can’t really have a slant; financially, you can’t have a slant on the end goals.’ – Amy J. Berg

‘On a regular basis if you’re trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.’ – Chris Bohjalian

‘Everything that I do is for sound goals. It comes from my gut. When I’m sitting in the studio, a mix isn’t done till I feel it in my gut.’ – Dr. Dre

‘I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that’s what it meant.’ – Kate Upton

‘To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.’ – Sherwin B. Nuland

‘Midori has been a steadfast supporter of the United Nations, as a Messenger of Peace and more recently by encouraging our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘At a time when we aim to accelerate our efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and define a bold agenda for the period beyond 2015, the role of charity can and should grow. U.N. bodies such as the U.N. Volunteers Programme and UNICEF offer venues for people across the world to get involved.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Success has nothing to do with box office as far as I’m concerned. Success has to do with achieving your goals, your internal goals, and growing as a person. It would have been nice to have been connected with a couple more box office hits, but in the long run, I don’t think it makes you happier.’ – Alan Arkin

‘One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents.’ – Eric Swalwell

‘Marathon runners set explicit goals.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.’ – Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

‘A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.’ – Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

‘Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.’ – Summer Sanders

‘Boxes and rectangles on the side or top of a website simply do not deliver against brand advertising goals. Like it or not, boxes and rectangles have for the most part become the province of direct response advertising, or brand advertising that pays, on average, as if it’s driven by direct response metrics.’ – John Battelle

‘I am looking forward to working with Congressman Hobson and Vorys Advisors to help Ohio businesses and organizations achieve their goals and objectives.’ – Zack Space

‘People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.’ – Thierry Henry

‘The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.’ – Peter Singer

‘The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.’ – Stephen Kinzer

‘Castro has lived almost his entire life as a clandestine revolutionary. To such figures, truth is always malleable, always subservient to political goals.’ – Stephen Kinzer

‘In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it’s just nice to wake up without one.’ – Matt Mullenweg

‘One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, ‘Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand’, and 20 people will turn around and say, ‘Is he? Can we invest?’ in the same way that, now, if you were to say, ‘My nephew is starting a mobile app,’ everyone would say, ‘Oh, smashing! Can I invest?” – Natalie Massenet

‘My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.’ – Kevin Hart

‘I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.’ – Louis Oosthuizen

‘It’s rewarding to know that I have young people in the gym who have the same goals as I had, and now I can help them reach those goals.’ – Jaycie Phelps

‘Keep yourself motivated. You’ve got to be motivated, you’ve got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you’ve got to have personal goals – short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them.’ – Gary Cohn

‘I believe I’ve accomplished my goals of trying to get better every year, and a little bit of that, a little bit of luck, a little bit of everything just falls in place, and you end up on top.’ – Camilo Villegas

‘There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.’ – Enrique Pena Nieto

‘One of the big goals of my administration will be to reposition Mexico again as an emerging power.’ – Enrique Pena Nieto

‘As the nation’s elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.’ – David Lee

‘I have some really lofty goals that don’t even scratch upon the Olympics.’ – Mikaela Shiffrin

‘I went into the ‘Idol’ audition with no expectations; that’s just the kind of person I am. If it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t hurt so badly, you know? But once I made it past the first round, and the second, and third – I started to realize, ‘Maybe my goals and dreams really are attainable.” – Crystal Bowersox

‘My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it since Rocket Richard. I was young when it happened, but I remember it very distinctly.’ – Kevin Connolly

‘A couple of years ago, right before I made ‘Down to You,’ there was a moment when I questioned what I was doing and if it meant anything. I felt like I wasn’t accomplishing anything, that the goals I’d set were silly goals. Finally, I realized I just loved acting. It was a very clear moment, and my whole life changed then.’ – Freddie Prinze, Jr.

‘In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don’t hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals.’ – Tina Brown

‘If President Obama has his way, you won’t recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.’ – Bob Ehrlich

‘Everyone has different goals. For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I’m passionate about, that are going to challenge me, and that I’m going to be growing from. I don’t ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.’ – Amanda Crew

‘One of my goals is to have this incredible body. I want to be strong, to be ripped.’ – Adrienne Bailon

‘I tell kids to have dreams, have goals, and believe in them because if you have any doubt, worry or fear, it will choke the life out of your dreams and goals.’ – Torii Hunter

‘Five days a week, I read my goals before I go to sleep and when I wake up. There are 10 goals around health, family and business with expiration dates, and I update them every six months.’ – Daymond John

‘The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military’s elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations missions kept under tight wraps, Americans have little understanding of where their troops are deployed, what exactly they are doing, or what the consequences might be down the road.’ – Nick Turse

‘I’m delighted the world is becoming more mentally literate. A few decades ago, if you mentioned the word ‘brain,’ no one was interested. Now, nearly every magazine on the planet is featuring the brain. One of my original goals, on one level, was to make myself unnecessary.’ – Tony Buzan

‘Make New Year’s goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you’re interested in fully living life in the year to come.’ – Melody Beattie

‘You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.’ – Daniel Snyder

‘With expectations, when you throw that stuff out there, when you put a bunch of pressure on yourself to reach those goals, you don’t do anything different. You just keep working to get better.’ – Chuck Pagano

‘Aaron Cruden and Beauden Barrett have both been decent, but Dan Carter takes it on to a different level, and he kicks his goals better than both of them.’ – Brian O’Driscoll

‘In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.’ – Wang Jianlin

‘I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don’t like surprises. I don’t even like good surprises.’ – Abigail Johnson

‘If people believe in your material, they will do whatever it takes to get it done. Even if they don’t, but you make it as awesome an experience as possible, they will help you reach your goals.’ – Ilana Glazer

‘You try to make the most of each day. I’m not big into setting real specific goals. I think, really, if you just focus on every day – and I know that’s the oldest cliche in the book, but it really is true. Day 1 of camp means just as much as Day 17 of camp. If you really try to focus on each and every one of those days, long-term.’ – Scott Tolzien

‘I believed in the concept of over-performing. I believe anyone can achieve their goals in life if they over-perform, and that means you have to work ten times harder than anybody you see.’ – Stephen J. Cannell

‘I am an opportunist. When opportunities come, and I see them serving my grander goals in life, I take them.’ – Evangeline Lilly

‘From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in Vietnam, I decided that I would focus on immediate goals that inspired me to devote all of my energy to them, rather than putting together the more cautious and traditional building blocks of a predictable career.’ – Jim Webb

‘The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life’s goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.’ – Aaron Patzer

‘As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.’ – John Gokongwei

‘Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we’re less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.’ – Gail Sheehy

‘I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?’ – Gail Sheehy

‘I have ideas in mind, things that I’m working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.’ – Steve Forbert

‘No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There’s only one way to get a government – and a nation – to stop drifting to low performance. That’s to wake up and insist on higher standards.’ – Donella Meadows

‘That’s one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.’ – Finn Wittrock

‘At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.’ – Steven Sinofsky

‘If you always think about your dreams or goals, work steadfastly towards them and continue to challenge yourself, you will definitely be able to realise those dreams or goals.’ – Tadashi Yanai

‘Once you find out that someone likes a certain game on Facebook, now you know what kind of virtual gift you can get them. You can send them a little decoration. Social games give you goals where you can help and reward your friends.’ – Bing Gordon

‘Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.’ – John Mackey

‘It’s interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It’s giving that person a lot of power.’ – Damien Chazelle

‘The whole reason I did a bodybuilding show was to see how far I could push my own discipline. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. When I made the switch to acting, I was able to break that down into small, measurable goals like I did with bodybuilding.’ – Matt McGorry

‘If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.’ – Craig Venter

‘Having inched closer and accomplished some of my major goals in the sport of golf, no pun intended, why not work as hard as I can to attain those goals if I’m already feeling like I’m playing well and getting more and more comfortable.’ – Jordan Spieth

‘When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.’ – Abby Wambach

‘A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.’ – Abby Wambach

‘I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you’re after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it’s important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.’ – Abby Wambach

‘I’ve scored many goals that I’ve liked, but I think the best memory I have is the one against Korea in the 2010 World Cup.’ – Luis Suarez

‘Obviously, being a forward, I would like to score more goals. But while the team does well, there is no problem.’ – Luis Suarez

‘If you score 20 goals one season, then you have to promise yourself that in the following season you will get 25.’ – Luis Suarez

‘I am obviously a striker who likes to score a lot of goals and have done that in every team I have been with.’ – Luis Suarez

‘A forward always has to help the team, either with assists or goals.’ – Luis Suarez

‘The so-called Arab Spring has proved that the fall of a Mubarak-like presidency does not mean the immediate rise of democracy. In spite of this, I am confident that Egypt will not return to an authoritarian governing system again, and that, with some time, it will achieve its democratic goals.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘I don’t tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.’ – Imelda May

‘Most of the people we sign on as development agents commit to goals they don’t believe are possible.’ – Fred DeLuca

‘We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.’ – Sri Mulyani Indrawati

‘I can’t just sit all day on the couch and expect the weight to come off. My goals are my new focus instead of food.’ – Graham Elliot

‘It’s weird. I don’t really have goals. I just try to make sure I’m enjoying what I’m doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.’ – Nathan Fielder

‘The function of a guideline isn’t to tell you what kids have actually experienced; it’s to provide goals.’ – Heidi Hayes Jacobs

‘In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together – around the clock if need be – without getting on each other’s nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar.’ – Richard Rodgers

‘Now that I’m 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there’s time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I’ll take what I can get.’ – Kate Christensen

‘You learn that different people are made differently, and they have different ways to reach to their goals. Some people reach their limits of what they can produce and create, and that doesn’t necessarily make them bad. It is just that they may not be right for that role in that instance.’ – Ram Shriram

‘I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I’m trying to define because it’s somehow fascinating to me in itself. It’s more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.’ – Alice McDermott

‘Sure, there were hopes that Constellation’s systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn’t work in 1970, and it wasn’t going to work in 2020.’ – Henry Spencer

‘I recommend tidying by category, not by place. For example, instead of deciding that today you’ll tidy a particular room, set goals such as ‘clothes today, books tomorrow.” – Marie Kondo

‘I didn’t go to law school to become a lawyer, per se – let’s just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents – but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.’ – Rachel Sklar

‘Our goals were and are to be sure that we set up DC Entertainment to be more integrated and more cooperative within DC as well as in Warner Bros.’ – Diane Nelson

‘I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I’ve realised now that’s it’s about managing my board and employees.’ – Leila Janah

‘The best way to make employees happy is to set realistic goals and achieve them. The big job is to make sure those small steps are pointing us in the right direction and demonstrate at the end of the year that they all add up to something pretty great.’ – Leila Janah

‘People with financial plans are much more likely to feel prepared, even in tumultuous times. They’re more likely to feel that their dreams and goals are secure. And, oh yes, they do actually save significantly more.’ – Jean Chatzky

‘I’m big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain.’ – Jean Chatzky

‘When you’re trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you’re attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.’ – Zach Johnson

‘I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one’s imagination and one’s goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.’ – Miriam Toews

‘When I first started making comics, I was living with a bunch of guys, old college friends. We had this deal. At the end of each day, they would ask me how far I’d gotten on my comic. And if I hadn’t made my goals, they were supposed to make me feel really bad about myself. They happily obliged.’ – Gene Luen Yang

‘Surrounding yourself with people who are actively and enthusiastically working toward their best futures will keep you moving toward your own goals.’ – Leah Busque

‘Through climbing, I’ve learned to find goals and work toward them. That’s just the way I love to live.’ – Tommy Caldwell

‘In rock climbing, people get strong enough, and then they pick goals they can do with their strengths at that moment.’ – Tommy Caldwell

‘Every time I’m home, it’s like a vacation, but I’ve been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.’ – Brittany Howard

‘Goals are ever-changing. I didn’t set out to be in a ‘Star Wars’ film but now I’ve been in one.’ – Daisy Ridley

‘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

‘I think what people need to realize is that, with trans people, we’re like everybody else. No group of people are all the same. All women are not the same, all men are not the same, all children are not the same. It’s the same thing with trans people – we’re all so different, we have different goals, different dreams, and different aspirations.’ – Jamie Clayton

‘As far as long-term goals, one of my favorite artists ever is Tegan and Sara, because every single one of their albums sounds different. Or Beck. I want to be like that because I come from so many different types of musical backgrounds.’ – Shamir

‘To all of the young people out there who are creating social change or even fomenting social movements: hold on to your idealism and your belief in your ability to change the world. Your lofty goals demand attention and deserve support.’ – Lynn Schusterman

‘I credit NTI, truthfully, with everything as far as where my head is and what my goals are and dreams are. I would say it was probably one of the most influential moments of my life, being there.’ – John Krasinski

‘I nursed Mason for 14 months and Penelope for 16, and I loved it. It was built-in time that the two of us could share alone every day. I didn’t have any goals or expectations.’ – Kourtney Kardashian

‘When results are shared freely amongst the biological community, as has been done for the worm and the Human Genome Projects, specialist scientists can move much more rapidly towards their goals.’ – John Sulston

‘When you’re working hard and doing all you can to achieve your goals, anything that can give you an edge is powerful and will streamline your path to success.’ – Travis Bradberry

‘There are a lot of goals and ambitions that I have in life, things I want to accomplish. Who knows? I mean – it could be politics one day. I want to have a life that can help people.’ – Tim Tebow

‘We try to stick pretty close to what our goals are and what we believe and what we enjoy doing in life – just simple things.’ – Priscilla Chan

‘I’ve tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.’ – Alex Honnold

‘Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?’ – Andrew Nikiforuk

‘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

‘I think that when you become a mom… you don’t really worry about the small stuff. I’m just way more centered. It makes you focus even more on what your goals are in life.’ – Ciara

‘Before I had a child, I had goals. And I still have to accomplish those goals, but now that I have a child, I have more goals to accomplish. So I can’t waste time.’ – Ciara

‘My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I’ve grown as a writer.’ – Sarah J. Maas

‘I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations.’ – Patrick Kane

‘As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that’s your job on the team.’ – Patrick Kane

‘Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that’s scoring goals, great.’ – Patrick Kane

‘We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.’ – Narendra Modi

‘Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there’s a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.’ – G. Willow Wilson

‘As an artist in the 21st century, my two goals are to make the best work that I can, improve as much as I can, and to distribute that work as far as I can.’ – Brandon Stanton

‘I am first a creator, but my ongoing objective is to leverage my personal success to help mentor new and existing talent and further help them achieve their goals. Endemol Beyond shares this vision, and together, we will drive the future of original content for generations to come.’ – Michelle Phan

‘When I was younger, I had this fairy tale that you can have the eight hours of sleep and be a healthy, balanced person and still achieve your goals. The reality is, that hasn’t always been the case.’ – Lilly Singh

‘Know what you want to achieve prior to starting to negotiate. It’s the golden rule but the one most people fail to heed. Without a plan, you allow the opposing party to define your goals instead of the other way around.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘I have goals and aspirations, and I believe that you can go after your dreams, and it can work if you have someone there that’s supporting you.’ – Tia Mowry

‘I am intrigued by different religions and respect them all, but to be honest, I feel the most spiritual when I am doing yoga or looking at an ocean. Being spiritual is feeling a connection with a higher power and knowing that life is about more than just achieving goals. It is about feeling good in the moment.’ – Heather Graham

‘I don’t think I’m severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it’s bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.’ – Garry Shandling

‘The aim of militants such as Boko Haram, whose very name means ‘Western education is a sin,’ is to sow hatred and enmity between Muslim and Christian communities, which have co-existed largely peacefully for generations. Education, in particular the education of women, is a threat to Boko Haram’s goals.’ – Ann Cotton

‘At times, Mario Cuomo seemed to have the humility of a Jesuit and the goals of an emperor.’ – Mike Barnicle

‘Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term – goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.’ – Karen Salmansohn

‘Alistair made my goals feel more achievable. I remember him competing for Great Britain when he was 15, and he came back with his GB kit. I thought, ‘Wow, I want a part of that.’ Sportsmen can seem distant, like superheroes. Seeing my brother achieve that made me think I could, too.’ – Jonathan Brownlee

‘I would like to be the best in the world, but that’s not the be-all and end-all. I want to have fun in my sport, and I want to take it as far as I can. Obviously, I do have big goals like that. But they don’t take over who I am as a person and my family and everything else that’s important in my life.’ – Kirsten Sweetland

‘As president, my father will take on the bold and worthy fights. He will be unafraid to set lofty goals, and he will be relentless in his determination to achieve them.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘Donald Trump will make sure that any agreement with Iran meets the original goals of the U.N and our allies: a non-nuclear Iran.’ – Rudy Giuliani

‘I would suggest always getting behind a company that shares your goals, whom you have access to the people who run it and who truly care about the world. This way we steer the ship together and many fears can be let go of.’ – Liz Parrish

‘When I sit down to write a scene, I have a plan in mind, and I’m thrilled when a character disregards my goals and takes the story to a place I hadn’t imagined.’ – Lauren Kate

‘When I was getting my education, I fell in love with the writings of Peter Drucker. He was my hero. I had a naive belief that when I became a manager, it was going to be like Peter Drucker’s books. That is, I was going to be the effective executive. I was going to talk to people about their goals. I was going to help them actualize.’ – Guy Kawasaki

‘I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it’s been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I’ve seen modeled in my family – my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.’ – Deborah Raney

‘I’m optimistic, and I have a lot of goals. And I obey the laws of nature: I eat, exercise, and rest properly. But mostly it’s about keeping the mind engaged. My grandmother lived to 104, and she had all of her faculties. I’m physically active and devout – just not as Buddhistic as she was.’ – George Takei

‘We must bring the rule of law to its full fruition in the United States, and when we do, we will have achieved the goals and rhetoric of our Founding Fathers.’ – David Boies

‘To finally become world champion after losing out in three previous finals is very satisfying. It shows that if you stick to your goals and work hard, you can achieve them in the end.’ – Nicola Adams

‘A leader in any place must ask himself who he identifies with, with which values, and towards what goals.’ – Tzipi Livni

‘Democracy is not only the right to vote, it is also about not resorting to violence in order to reach political goals and respecting agreements signed by former governments.’ – Tzipi Livni

‘I’m very good at setting goals and deadlines for myself, so I don’t really need that from outside.’ – Judy Blume

‘Even when you’re not acting, don’t lose sight of your goals or who you are.’ – Condola Rashad

‘It is our family’s hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X’s life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.’ – Ilyasah Shabazz

‘The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how I view myself in a professional and personal capacity. So he encouraged me to set the bar very high for myself, to set great goals for myself.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘I spend a lot of time building teams at both businesses – both The Trump Organization and my own – and thinking about who to hire to supplement the team and allow us to best achieve our goals.’ – Ivanka Trump

‘Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.’ – J. B. Pritzker

‘People need to have clear goals about why they are exercising, and they should consult a fitness expert to find out what kind of exercise is suitable.’ – Lynn Davies

‘About 99 percent of fighters end up broke. F.I.S.T. helps them turn the page and find new goals.’ – Gerry Cooney

‘The bottom line is a record of ideas. The bottom line is a plan for how to get this country back on track. It’s not about attendance – it’s about goals and opportunity to move this nation forward.’ – Cory Gardner

‘To truly utilize the full potential of every person in our nation, our laws and representation must track the needs, concerns, and goals of the Latino community.’ – Tony Cardenas

‘Our kids have to understand that drinking underage is a poor decision that could drastically affect their chances to achieve the goals they’ve set.’ – Tony Cardenas

‘I’m against the president’s health care law because I don’t agree that it’s going to achieve its goals. I believe in the goals.’ – Chris Gibson

‘For us to accomplish our goals, it will be necessary to transform our political culture, to respect plurality, and to build, among ourselves, bridges and more bridges.’ – Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

‘We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself.’ – Mother Angelica

‘David Ben-Gurion understood that the public’s trust is given to a leader in order to lead, determine clear goals and make difficult decisions. The fate of the people and the good of the state guided him, not polls, media treatment or measures of prestige.’ – Ariel Sharon

‘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.

‘So far, my goals stops at making an Olympic team, and then if that happens, then I’ll jot down more goals.’ – Simone Biles

‘There are goals that I have, and then I dream of it, and then I make it a reality. If I could crawl out of my skin and see it, it would be really amazing.’ – Simone Biles

‘One of my major goals off the field is to conduct myself in a way that… parents are proud to say, ‘Oh yeah, look, he wants to be like Sonny Bill Williams.” – Sonny Bill Williams

‘The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.’ – Bradley Wiggins

‘I don’t do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.’ – Katarina Johnson-Thompson

‘I never set goals.’ – Charlotte Dujardin

‘I am constantly re-evaluating my goals and trying to strike items from my to-do list that aren’t critical.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I’ve been aiming for just aren’t that important.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘I don’t set goals. Competing with a number in your head can be limiting, and I don’t know what my capabilities are yet.’ – Ashton Eaton

‘I will teach people not only how to identify their goals and dreams, but subsequently give them the tools to make those dreams a reality.’ – Jillian Michaels

‘That’s absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That’s a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.’ – Zara Larsson

‘It’s real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that’s one of my main goals in the business – to continue to be me.’ – Brantley Gilbert

‘Support each other as is needed to achieve goals for the benefit of the people and the nation’s security.’ – Bhumibol Adulyadej

‘I wanted to win an SEC championship and a national championship. Those are the main goals.’ – Chad Kelly

‘When you play a great team like the Patriots, you can only kick so many field goals and stay in the game.’ – Brock Osweiler

‘A football player at any level must set goals.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘Goals give you a mark to shoot for and keep you motivated when you face adversity.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘Our goals, our dreams and ambitions have always been towards performing live music across the globe, and so when we were told we were performing at The Billboard Awards or being nominated for a VMA, they’re like extra bonuses.’ – Lukas Forchhammer

‘I think journaling is a key to success. You can set clear goals for yourself. You can start noticing repetitive behavior patterns and see the type of things that keep bothering you, and then you can have a bird’s eye view of it.’ – Eric Andre

‘Generally, achieving goals… which in many cases means winning… is really the ultimate in this life we live in.’ – Tom Landry

‘I have a lot of goals, but I think that I just want to take it day by day.’ – Michael Phelps

‘Even with – the best make-up in the world won’t look good if you don’t cleanse and exfoliate and have a good basic regime. This is why one of my goals has always been to create a skincare line.’ – Francois Nars

‘Our goals must be to find new, environmentally-friendly ways by which to continue the art of creation, to utilize our valuable human skills, and to make things that will bring joy.’ – Issey Miyake

‘I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.’ – Sabrina Carpenter

‘Most importantly, I don’t do music for people to want to be a singer, actor, or dancer. I do it because I love it and I want to show others you can accomplish goals.’ – Trevor Jackson

‘It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.’ – Pablo Sandoval

‘New WikiLeaks-provided e-mails from Clinton aide Doug Band reveal the true nature of the Clinton cash operation: No matter what the stated humanitarian goals of the Clinton Foundation, every fiber and sinew of the organization is wrapped in self-dealing, self-enrichment, fraud, and corruption.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You have to begin with the end goal in mind, knowing that a goal is a dream with a deadline.’ – Clay Clark

‘Committing to a particular goal publicly puts pressure on oneself. It becomes an enormous action-forcing mechanism and often helps you achieve more than you might have had you kept your goals to yourself.’ – David Petraeus

‘One of our goals is to figure out ways of diversifying where we are.’ – Freddie Wong

‘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

‘When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah’s economy. We set bold goals, and we’ve built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.’ – Gary Herbert

‘We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.’ – Viktor Orban