Long-Term Goal Quotes

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

We've plotted through the years of how to get to here, where we are now, or we would have never made it.

I've been wanting to cut my hair now for at least a year. I've often fantasized about it but I haven't been able to do it because of the contracts that I've had.

I think that there was a period of time - and I would reckon it was about 12 years - where I was just determined to see if I could build a career for myself.

Merely to call for absolute victory will produce nothing. In order to make the divine land … imperishable, we must bear the unbearable.

I've always been interested in acting - since I was a little girl.

Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

An instrumental album is something I've been wanting to do for a long time.

I want to make something great. I want to make something that I can be proud of in 10 years, something that is timeless.

When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.

I still sing, because that's my true calling. This basketball thing is only for, what, I think another year or so. And then I think I'm gonna switch over to my singing career.

Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.

I never really looked at Formula One like that was the long-term goal. I obviously dreamed, and my aspirations were to get to Formula One, but I really started thinking about it in Formula 3 at 16, 17 years old, and I saw that it was right in front of me.

I told some people before, that if five years from now, or 10 years, if I am still playing in the NFL, this whole kind of story just fits who I am. It just shows that with hard work and confidence in yourself and belief in yourself, you can accomplish your dreams.

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

We will never forget. If it takes us five or ten or twenty years, we will never rest until we get our revenge.

I really put the medical school thing on hold and really chased after my football dream. And I guess I'm still chasing. I'm eight years in the NFL, and I feel very fortunate to be where I am.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.