Best 5117 quotes in «goal quotes» category

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

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.

And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.

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.

Andy Johnson is quick, brave and strong and he will get goals.

An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived. It unifies your efforts and energy. It gives meaning and purpose to all you do.

A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.

An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.

Animosity towards the merchant class has been around for centuries. Why? The goal of making a profit is quite obviously a self-serving motive. Other occupations, while equally self-serving, are better able to hide their motives.

An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.

A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. What he told us was that he did not want to sacrifice jobs and that he wanted to work with the auto industry to achieve that goal.

An unselfish dream, goal, or service can help us to the height of spiritual living.

An undefined goal is unreachable.

Any company that cannot imagine the future won't be around to enjoy it.

Any cause that requires mockery and abuse to advance itself isn't one I need to engage with, regardless of my basic beliefs or agreement with the underlying goals.

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the ultimate goal.

Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth.

Any goal you have, you just have to set it and never give up and always make sure that you always just follow your dreams.

Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts.

Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful?

Anyone can want something; it's those who believe in their goals that achieve.

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

Anyone who has ever accomplished anything of any consequence, didn't know how to get what they want, they only knew that they were going to get it. You don't know how to do something, until after you've done it. Our problem is, we set goals to do what we think we can do or what we've already done. There's no inspiration in that.

Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public's consent to a program or goal.

Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit.

Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

Anything that is within someone else's reach is also within yours. Set your goals no matter how impossible they may seem. Then focus on what is between you and that goal. And then, simply take out the obstacles as they come.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always "against" things-we're never "for" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

Anytime you make a movie, the goal is a wide theatrical release, with the right distributor.

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

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.

Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored.

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.

A positive goal to strive for when disciplining would be to raise children we not only love, but in whose company we love being.

Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.

Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.

A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most.