Goal Quotes - Page 74

Frequent risk-takers have had their fair shares of failures and successes, hence, being confident in reaching their goals, they will usually seem insensitive to whether or not they look foolish or cool to other people.

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

I truly feel that if you understand yourself and set goals without the regulations and limitations others put on you, then nothing is impossible.

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

There's really just one thing I can control: my attitude during the journey, which is what keeps me feeling steady and stable, and what keeps me headed in the right direction. So I consciously monitor and correct, if necessary, because losing attitude would be far worse than not achieving my goal.

Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.

We want a crowd to make us feel important and liked. But why is getting a crowd our focus? Jesus never suggested that crowds were the goal. He never addresses getting your church to grow. Never.

I encourage everybody and challenge everybody to strive towards their goals. . . . There will be ups and there will be downs, but just keep working towards them and don't let anybody tell you that you can't do it.

Hang onto that goal and you do what you have to do to make it happen.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!

You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them.

All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work.

Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

My No. 1 goal in racing was never to be the most popular driver.

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.

If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment.

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.

The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and theories, with maximum publicity of ultimate and intermediate goals, and with a consistency of principles.