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Goal Quotes

"Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it."

Richard M. Hunt, American Historian

Goal, Results, Want, Wishes

"I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing."

Lou Brock, American Athlete

Goal, Goals, Competition

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

Vince Lombardi, American Coach

Goal, Effort, Leaders

"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, American Writer

Goal, Goals, Energy, Focus

"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal."

Richard Stallman, American Scientist

Goal, Idealism, Want, World

"No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal."

Bonnie Blair, American Athlete

Goal, Competition, Day

"I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal."

Lucas Grabeel, American Actor

"The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another."

Ken Hill, British Playwright

"It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in."

Peter Forsberg, Swedish Athlete

"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, Canadian Athlete

Goal, Goals, Winning, Battle, Effort

"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, English Writer

Goal, Goals, End, Patience, Persistence

"If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports."

Stephen F. Lynch, American Politician

"If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal."

Mark Lawrenson, English Athlete

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."

Havelock Ellis, British Psychologist

Goal, Philosophy

"The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

Goal, March, Public

"We all share a common goal - we want our children to succeed."

Bob Taft, American Politician

Goal, Children, Succeed, Want

"My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world."

Jaromir Jagr, Czechoslovakian Athlete

Goal, Play, World

"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, American Actress

Goal, Goals, Journey, Open

"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, American Writer

Goal, Goals, Day, Waste

"Our goal should be to achieve joy."

Ana Castillo, American Novelist

"The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans."

Michael K. Simpson, American Politician

Goal, Americans, Drugs

"I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl."

Michael Strahan, American Athlete

"I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals."

Michel Patini, French Footballer

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."

E. Joseph Cossman, American Businessman

Goal, Eyes, Obstacles

"And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

Goal, Attention, Day, Students

"You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals."

Johnny Bench, American Athlete

Goal, Goals, Trying

"In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal."

Patricia Ireland, American Activist

Goal, Winning, Building, Support

"My agent said to me five years ago, 'Hugh, I can see one day you... if I had to plan a goal for you, it's for you to have the kind of career that Sinatra had.'"

Hugh Jackman, Australian Actor

Goal, Career, Day, Years

"It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can."

Shirley Williams, British Politician

"All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts."

Eric Bristow, American Celebrity

Goal, Football, Kissing, Right

"If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose."

Bobby Moore, English Athlete

"I'm not going to make it the all - everything. Our (the Saints) goal is to get better, make the playoffs and win the Super Bowl, but I'm not gonna anguish over it like I have in the past."

Mike Ditka, American Coach

"But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached."

Florenz Ziegfeld, American Producer

"The goals made such a difference to the way this game went."

John Motson, British Celebrity

Goal, Goals, Difference

"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps."

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

"We all have a common goal, and we know it's all for our future good."

Marta Kristen, American Actress

"My goal is to break three hours in a marathon."

Frank Shorter, American Athlete

"It's not my goal to be a famous actor."

Gavin DeGraw, American Musician

Goal, Actor, Famous

"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, German Revolutionary

Goal, Goals, Battle, Will

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible."

Orison Swett Marden, American Writer

"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 Simon, American Scientist

Goal, Goals, Order

"Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive."

Mao Tse Tung, Chinese Leader

"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self."

Marianne Williamson, American Author

Goal, Practice, Self, Sense

"My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it."

Jewel Kilcher, American Musician

Goal, Spirit, Worth, Jewel

"If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals."

Lillian Gordy Carter, American Celebrity

Goal, Goals, Children, Meaning

"Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you."

William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist

Goal, Succeed, Will

"Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful."

Larry Page, American Businessman

Goal, Information, World

"Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original, has never been its own goal."

Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist

"Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary."

Alan Hansen, Scottish Athlete

Goal, France, Years

"Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best."

James Harvey Robinson, American Historian

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