Life Goal Quotes

My goal is to do cartwheels for the rest of my life. ~ Andie MacDowell

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal. ~ Stefan Zweig

For the most part I have been able to meet all my goals, but I always strive for bigger goals in life so everything's not complete just yet. My first aspiration was to be known as a singer and also as an advocate for sickle cell disease. I try to be that inspiration, you know. It's not as bad as people try to make it seem. I mean, it is, but it's not. People don't have to be afraid of it; they don't have to be held down by it. Try to find triumph in the situation. ~ A. J. Green

What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do. ~ Oprah Winfrey

It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish. ~ Dale Rex Coman

The fastest way to destroy love is to make a goal out of it, because people who are trying to be loved come from a place that they're not loved. ~ Werner Erhard

My life goal right now is to die a good man, with a good heart, soul, and mind, with a good family, and a couple Grammys. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine. ~ Jhene Aiko

My goal in life has been to be a songsmith, not a pop person. ~ Julian Lennon

Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life. ~ Mark Victor Hansen

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen. ~ Benigno Aquino III

The greatest goal is to be a God-carrier in your sphere of life ~ Sunday Adelaja

If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that can be attained, then even if we have less energy at our command and fewer material goods available, we might nevertheless still increase our satisfaction in life. ~ Richard Heinberg

One has to ask what is the goal of life? What is the goal of life? My interpretation of it for myself, a very wise teacher once taught me this, is to meet the needs of the people, places and the times around you and offering those services to God. ~ Suze Orman

My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die. ~ Susun Weed

Every healthy person must have a goal in life and that life must have content. ~ Hermann Hesse

Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43. ~ Dan Jenkins

Effective altruism is an advance in ethical behavior as well as in the practical application of our ability to reason. I have described it as an emerging movement, and that term suggests that it will continue to develop and spread. If it does, then once there is a critical mass of effective altruists, it will no longer seem odd for anyone to regard bringing about "the most good I can do" as an important life goal. If effective altruism does become mainstream, I would expect it to spread more rapidly, for then it will be apparent that it is easy to do a great deal of good and feel better about your life as a result. ~ Peter Singer

So there I was, feeling like the luckiest girl on earth. To be buried alive in such a majestic coffin! MAJOR life goal achieved!!!! ~ Rob Reger

Everything that is full of life loves change,
for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures ~ Fulton J. Sheen

I long had a goal of becoming president of a company. But it was not till I was 57 years old that I became president of Cisco Systems with its 34 employees. Life offers opportunity at every stage. ~ John Morgridge

I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life. ~ Andreas Gursky

There are no bystanders in life [ ... ] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves. ~ Sonia Sotomayor

Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable. ~ Guy Kawasaki

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. ~ Seneca The Younger

I'm well on my way to achieving my life-goal: to become an eccentric old woman. ~ Kate Rauner

One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance. ~ Gloria Vanderbilt

Our ultimate goal should to be to become adept at overcoming the constraints of daily life. However, to achieve this we will need to learn how to be fully in touch with our sensual side at all times. ~ Lebo Grand

Victim complex are so dangerous because they automatically attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their lives ~ Sunday Adelaja

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids. ~ Mike Pompeo

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life. ~ Frederick Wiseman

My favorite player is Tiger Woods. I think I can beat Tiger when I'm 20. It's a life goal. ~ Michelle Wie

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature. ~ Eric Hoffer

Living your life without goals and plans is like trying to send a letter to somewhere without adding the correct the address ... The letter may get elsewhere in some days; so your life too goes somewhere else without better goals! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being. ~ Ha-Joon Chang

Those who don't set goals in life end up being controlled by those who do. ~ Paul Sloane

The reason for this behavior did not appear to be a strong desire to remain free and avoid commitments in that 89 percent of undergraduates say having a good marriage or committed relationship is an essential life goal. Rather it seemed more a fear of rejection from a generation that had avoided skinning their knees. It is a risk to express feelings. There is a chance of getting hurt. Dancing alone together is safer. ~ Arthur Levine

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal. ~ Jimmy Wales

Wholeness lies beyond perfection. Perfection is only an idea. For most experts and many of the rest of us it has become a life goal...A perfectionist sees life as if it were one of those little pictures that used to appear in the newspapers over the caption "What's wrong with this picture?" If you looked at the picture carefully you would see that the table only had three legs or the house had no door. I remember the "Aha!" that these pictures evoked in me as a child. I wonder now why anyone would want to take such satisfaction in seeing what is missing, what is wrong, what is "broken." The pursuit of perfection has become a major addiction of our time. Fortunately, perfectionism is learned...which is why it's possible to recover. ~ Rachel Naomi Remen

The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought. ~ Denis Waitley

Indulgence is a legitimate life goal, but it is only one of four life goals. No life is completely lived unless each of these goals is achieved. They are:
Dharma, the goal of fulfilling the duties assigned to us by our positions in society;
Artha, the goal of accumulating possessions in the course of fulfilling our duties;
Kama, the goal of satisfying legitimate desires with the assistance of one's accumulated possessions; and
Moksha, the goal of realizing that there is more to life than duty, possessions and desires. ~ Robert E. Svoboda

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life. ~ Tiffeny Milbrett

My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance. ~ Michael Jackson

My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life. ~ Don Imus

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.' ~ Rashida Jones

I'm building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a 'Star Wars' project. My life goal is to have a character in the 'Star Wars' universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world. ~ Rahul Kohli

When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be. ~ Blake Butler

This shift in culture has changed us. In the first place, it has made us a bit more materialistic. College students now say they put more value on money and career success. Every year, researchers from UCLA survey a nationwide sample of college freshmen to gauge their values and what they want out of life. In 1966, 80 percent of freshmen said that they were strongly motivated to develop a meaningful philosophy of life. Today, less than half of them say that. In 1966, 42 percent said that becoming rich was an important life goal. By 1990, 74 percent agreed with that statement. Financial security, once seen as a middling value, is now tied as students' top goal. In 1966, in other words, students felt it was important to at least present themselves as philosophical and meaning-driven people. By 1990, they no longer felt the need to present themselves that way. They felt it perfectly acceptable to say they were primarily interested in money.20 We live in a more individualistic society. If ~ David Brooks

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.
Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through the life:
Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own. ~ Adam Lindsay Gordon

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations. ~ Cavett Robert

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church. ~ Joni Eareckson Tada

I have no apartment and no job. I have no steady relationship or even a city to call home. I have no idea what I want to be doing with my life, no idea what my purpose is, and no real sign of a life goal. And yet time has found me. The years I've spent dilly-dallying around at different jobs in different cities show on my face. ~ Taylor Jenkins Reid

The smile of God is the goal of your life. ~ Rick Warren

It seems to me that we learn the most not when we look for a certain answer, but when we allow questions to naturally guide us to an outocme, often an outcome that we have not planned or predicted. My goal ... is to live the questions. ~ Michael Sweeney

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that. ~ Joko Beck

Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature. ~ James Frey

It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else's mind and obey someone else's command when you are a person of victim mentality ~ Sunday Adelaja

Hitch your wagon to a star. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me. ~ Albert Einstein

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived. ~ Gilda Radner

For someone whose goal in life was to stay unemployed, I can't imagine what I thought was going to happen. I was so terrified of everything, I just thought I'd curl up in the gutter and die, and by a complete mistake, my life turned out to be absolutely wonderful. ~ Deborah Eisenberg

None of us can help where we were scattered, Blue. But none of us has to remain where we were scattered. ~ Amy Harmon

Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse. ~ Og Mandino

These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your life and require three thumbs to control. My goal is to create games that almost retreat into the background. I'm interested in bringing them back to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact. ~ Nolan Bushnell

Whatever your goal in life, the beginning is knowledge and experience ~ Henry Ford

In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We're not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We're looking for a softer orientation to life. ~ Marianne Williamson

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place ~ Denis Waitley

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential. ~ Steve Garvey

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven. ~ Lou Holtz

Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence. ~ Paulo Coelho

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there. ~ David Viscott

Goals determine what you're going to be. ~ Julius Erving

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement ... get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

When you know your life mission and life goal, you will be better able to avoid the life traps ~ Sunday Adelaja

Anybody can say 'I do' at the altar; the hard part is saying 'I do' every day thereafter. Anybody can set a life goal; the hard part is going after it every day. Anybody can say no to any addiction for a day, but you have to say it day after day after day. ~ Mark Batterson

Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have. ~ Vera Brosgol

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. ~ Vash Young

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives. ~ Julio Olalla

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n! ~ Albert Einstein

I was born and raised in a small town in Maine, Waterville. I enjoyed living there - still do - and my goal in life was a fairly specific and focused one of practicing law in Maine. ~ George J. Mitchell

Life is [perceived as] a series of problems: Either you are in one now,
you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one.
The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort.
God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.
We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life.
The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness. ~ Rick Warren

...you can't eat a grub, man. You'd be depriving that young moth of its life goal of bashing into a lightbulb all night. ~ Cutter Nick

My goal is to play characters that I feel I can contribute to and also ones I can contribute back to my life. ~ Nikki Reed

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ~ Rita Mae Brown

Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The imagination wants to construct the new worlds, no? Creativity is a solution. If I ask you, "What is your goal in life? How many years do you have to live before to die? How many years do you have? And what you will do with these years you have?" You have pressure there. "How you will realize a good life? How? Tell me!" Then, you start to open your mind. ~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life. ~ Sean Durkin

My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation,
As my two eyes make one in sight. ~ Robert Frost

The goal of a life is not to provide material for good stories. ~ Tim Kreider

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal. ~ Damien Hirst

I would always rather be working on the band. All that other stuff is stuff I really enjoy doing, but I don't consider it ... like, I don't want to be a producer. I don't consider that as my life's goal. ~ Guy Picciotto

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away. ~ Jaggi Vasudev

My goal in life was to host the MTV Awards, because it's the awards show that Prince sang on, and that was the awards show that Eddie Murphy hosted and Arsenio hosted. ~ Chris Rock

My biggest goal in life is to not be annoying about being a bride. ~ Christine Teigen

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself. ~ Kevin Smith

I may not be perfect, but I am worthy. ~ Mel Robbins

Being a professional wrestler was never one of my goals in life. I always wanted to be some kind of entertainer. I used to want to be a rock singer or a guitar player but I can't sing and I can't play the guitar. ~ Ric Savage

He wore a threadbare white T-shirt that should've been as noteworthy as a bowl of oatmeal. Instead, it clung to his chest like it had aspirations of taking over for his skin. Hell, she'd have the same life goal. ~ Christine Bell