Goals Quotes

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

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

~ James Cameron

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 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

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

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

~ Emma Thompson

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

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

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

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

~ Thierry Henry

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

Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.

~ Adam D'angelo

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

~ Ralph Marston

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

~ Michael Phelps

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.

~ Hamza Yusuf

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

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

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

~ Albert Einstein

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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