Goal Quotes

Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

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.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.

I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.

I was inspired more by early Bette Midler. I do wear a fancy dress and very high heels - and extra high hair. My goal is to obliterate all earnestness.

But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Our goal: the Islamization of Muslims. Our methods: to believe and to struggle.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.

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.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.