Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey Eugenides

My goal in life is to become an adjective,

Jesse Jackson

Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

Jean Chatzky

After explaining why you're in trouble, ask the creditor if the company would be willing to accept a smaller amount. Start negotiations at about 30% of the total amount due, with the end goal of paying 50%.

Jean Chatzky

The debt settlement company will direct you to stop paying your creditor and instead send the money directly to them each month. The company's goal is to demonstrate to your creditor that you don't have the money to pay up - that's your leverage. After a few months, the company will typically go to the creditor and say, "I'm holding X dollars on behalf of your customer. He doesn't have the money to pay you, so you should take this amount as a settlement or you'll end up with nothing." If the creditor wants to get paid badly enough, it will take the money.

James C. Collins

People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals.

James C. Collins

Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

James Agee

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.

James A. Michener

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

James A. Baldwin

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have a sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be.

Jackie Kennedy

A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Christopher Lambert

What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.

George Harrison

If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.

Gary Blair

A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.

Fulton J. Sheen

We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ultimate goal of life; from Him we came, and in Him alone do we find our peace.

Franz Grillparzer

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Jim Carrey

I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.

Jewel

My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.

Jeff Cooper

We learn that Comrade [President of South Africa Nelson] Mandela has announced in a speech that he hopes for a bright future in South Africa for ‘liberty’ and ‘equality.’ Anyone who has thought about it realizes that liberty and equality are antithetical concepts. You can have one, or you can have the other, but you certainly cannot have both. As to that, either concept is a rather futile goal. Equality is biologically impossible, and liberty is only obtainable in homogeneous populations very thinly spread.

Jeff Bezos

The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company.

Jeff Bridges

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

Jean-Paul Sartre

In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.

George Saunders

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.

Jeff Olson

Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the group. Associate with these people on a regular basis.

Jean Paul

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Jerry Spinelli

Great achievement goes through, not around, discouragement. Is there a roadblock in my way, keeping me from something I want to achieve? Am I discouraged? I understand now that discouragement often precedes achievement. Instead of retreating from the roadblock or seeking a way around it, I will boldly punch a hole through it and continue toward my goal.

Eminem

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Jason Mraz

My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.

Hilary Swank

I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself.

Hillary Clinton

We have to bring communities together in order to begin working on that as a mutual goal.

Hillary Clinton

Keep striving for your goals, and remember that it's good to be ambitious.

Hillary Clinton

Our goal is to make it easier for everyone to do better.

Hillary Clinton

We have to defeat ISIS. That is my highest counterterrorism goal.

Evelyn Lauder

When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.