Goal Quotes

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

~ George J. Mitchell

My mom is a teacher, my dad was a writer for television, his dad was a writer for television, and combining those two has been sort of the goal of my life.

~ Joss Whedon

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

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

~ Louis Pasteur

The goal of all life is death.

~ Sigmund Freud

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

My goal is to show girls that I'm fighting so they don't have to, so they don't have to fight the same battles, so they don't have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.

~ Alex Morgan

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

~ Pratibha Patil

I don't really think I feel pressured to become a teen sensation because that's not really my goal in life. It's not really about being star, being popular or having lots of girls. It's really about continuing to be able to act and have fun, and do what I like to do.

~ Chris Massoglia

Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.

~ River Phoenix

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

~ Paul Mcdonald

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

~ Jimi Hendrix

I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

~ Jack Black

The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?

~ Joel Fuhrman

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

~ Wayne Gretzky

Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.

~ Ann Voskamp

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

~ Louis Kronenberger

Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

~ Princess Diana

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

~ Saina Nehwal

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

~ Jon Huntsman

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

~ Richard Dreyfuss

I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That's when I realized that excitement, if it's happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.

~ Sushant Singh Rajput

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?

~ Agnes Martin

Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.

~ Janis Karpinski

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

~ Richard G. Scott

The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

~ Alvar Aalto

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

~ Henry Paulson

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

~ Helmut Jahn

For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.

~ Mariella Frostrup

My goal in the classroom was always to make sure they were having so much fun that they didn't realize they were learning.

~ Rick Riordan

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

~ Michael Symon

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.

~ Daryl Hannah

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

~ Taylor Swift

In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.

~ Alex Steffen

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

~ Jean Piaget

I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.

~ Queen Latifah

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

~ Steve Jobs

At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.

~ Kevin Mitnick

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

~ Ben Carson