Objectives Quotes

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

No one starts a war—or rather, no one in his senses ought to do so—without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by that war, and how he intends to conduct it.

Goals are what count for me. It's not about a battle with defenders. Fighting hard, giving everything and working hard on the field you have to combine with the goals you score. It doesn't matter if defenders want to battle with me or not; I will just be trying to do my job as well as I possibly can.

Freedom is a great horse to ride, but you have to know your destination.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

My objective is to destroy anybody over 200 pounds, in the ring or out.

Diplomacy, when matched by force, can achieve our objectives.

We cannot operate with one foreign policy objective in one area, and with a conflicting one next door.

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.

The true objective of war is peace.

You always have more than one goal in foreign policy.

There's a lot that I want to accomplish.

The disagreement among American political parties, with only a few exceptions, has been over the practical question of how to secure the agreed objective, while conciliating different interests, rather than over ultimate values or over what interest is paramount.

It makes no difference who says that our objective is peace, even if he be the President of the United States. Our actions speak louder than words, and our actions in Asia today are the actions of warmaking.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

Goals are essentially private things.

I don't usually paint a big picture on what I'll do in the future.

Our objectives are clear. Let's keep the government open and protect our constituents.

I do have my targets in terms of what I need to improve on.

Objective reality - otherwise known as the truth - matters.

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.