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Goal Quotes

I like doing small parts, because I don’t feel I’m that practised in acting. It’s like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

– Heidi Klum

I think the first goal can be weight off your shoulders.

– Henrikh Mkhitaryan

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

Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities as part of its broader goal of creating new subjects wedded to consumerism, risk-free relationships, and the destruction of the social state.

– Henry Giroux

My goal was to make first lieutenant. I never spent a lot of time worrying about what came after that.

– Hugh Shelton

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

– Henri Nouwen

During my time as a judge, as a justice, and as attorney general, I’ve had one overarching goal, and that is a strict interpretation and application of the laws and the Constitution. I would be Madisonian.

– Greg Abbott

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren’t scoring then you aren’t going to win games. That’s obvious.

– Gary Speed

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.

– Grant Achatz

Regardless of the obstacles or hurdles that are ahead of you, regardless of the opponent, regardless of the odds, your goal and objective always is to win. I think that’s part of sports.

– Grant Hill

Singing is my main goal, and I think philosophy will help me write songs.

– Jackie Evancho

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.

– Johan Cruyff

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

– J. Cole

God revealed himself through the Law, which pointed to Christ as its end and goal, commanded the obedience that comes from faith, increased transgressions, and shut the mouths of all humans because no one has performed the righteousness of the Law so as not to need a substitute.

– John Piper

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.

– Jane Pauley

Historically, more media has been consumed sitting in front of the television than any other device. Controlling this screen has been the goal of major technology, consumer electronic, and telecommunications companies.

– Jay Samit

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.

– Jonathan Kozol

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

– Jacques Ellul

I’m a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with ‘The Conjuring.’

– James Wan

Say you’re an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required?

– Joshua Cohen

You may be a redneck if… your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

– Jeff Foxworthy

Seeking justice is always our goal, but we see many too willing to circumvent that.

– John Fleming

Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.

– Jamais Cascio

I think reconciliation is Obama’s goal – but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

– Jesse Jackson

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological – indeed, genetic – goal.

– Joseph Brodsky

In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on ‘The Tonight Show’ with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on ‘The Tonight Show’ in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.

– Jeff Dunham

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

– Joyce Meyer

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a ‘free beer’ kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

– Jimmy Wales

I’m on this eternal quest to get the best guitar sound in the world, but my vision of what is ‘the best’ changes every time I go into the studio. Sometimes my goal is to make my guitar jump out, and sometimes I want it to lay back.

– James Hetfield

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