Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Harvey Robinson

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

James Hansen

The question is not whether to close the parks, but how to accomplish this goal.

Liang Chow

If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals,

Gary Chapman

Before I discovered the concept of the 5 love languages, a bit of advice I was given was to become a student of my wife and to take time to learn what makes her feel loved. I soon learned that what makes her feel loved may not always be the thing I want to do because it may not come natural to me. But learning to love her in the way that makes her feel loved is a greater demonstration of my love for her, because I've chosen to do it with a goal of pleasing her.

Frederick the Great

Being goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and be able to utilize all the resources available to you. This includes the knowledge of all those available to you as well as using the physical resources and those who control them.

George Galloway

I had three goals and all of them were met.

George Foreman

We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.

George Foreman

One of my goals is to inspire everyone I meet to become a better person.

Joko Beck

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

Johnathon Schaech

As an actor, your main goal is to tell the truth.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

Luc Besson

I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.

Louis Oosthuizen

I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.

Louis Pasteur

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.

John Baldacci

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

John C. Maxwell

If you focus on goals, you may hit goals - but that doesn't guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.

Harvey Mackay

Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

George Barna

The absolute goal of vision for ministry is to glorify God.

Geno Auriemma

It's about doing it in a way that it can't be done any better. That is the goal every day.

Jason Chimera

The guys who are supposed to be scoring are scoring goals, and the guys who are supposed to be stopping the other team from scoring them are doing it.

Eric Staal

The guys were looking for me because I already had two goals so I was trying to get open.

The guys know what's at stake if we win, we're in, and if we lose, we're done. One of our goals was to make it to the national tournament -- to give us an opportunity -- and we have it right now.

Matthieu Ricard

The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

Maxwell Maltz

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

Maxwell Maltz

This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending upon the goals which you yourself set for it. Present it with success goals and it functions as a Success Mechanism. Present it with negative goals, and it operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully as a Failure Mechanism.

Maxwell Maltz

When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

Matthew Perry

The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

Matthew McConaughey

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

Mats Sundin

There are more short-term goals right now the way I see it, that I feel are more important right now than maybe the 1,000 points.

Phil Keoghan

When I hear people watched my film and then got on their own bikes and rode, whether a few miles or across America, to achieve their own goals - that excites me. It's the power of a story.

Phil Keoghan

I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.

Phil McGraw

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

Jonathan Sacks

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.