Quotes about Goal
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
— Kathleen Norris
Lord, I refuse to let my attitude be controlled by regrets and worries that reflect a lack of trust in You. My goal is to take every thought captive and destroy any thought that contradicts my knowledge of You. Through the power of Your Holy Spirit, I pray that You will enable me to do this.
— Kay Arthur
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
— George Eliot
You can't reach perfection unless you reach zero seconds - it's just the constant chase for perfection.
— Caeleb Dressel
If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
— George Eliot
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?
— Shirley Chisholm
War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.
— Herman Melville
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Victory lies not only in the end goal but in the steps of faith we take every day toward that goal.
— Susan May Warren
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
Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
— Napoleon Hill