When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill Cosby
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
Charles de Lint
Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
George F. Burns
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
Forget goals. Value the process.
Jim Bouton
Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.
Les Brown
One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream fulfilled, lives not as a man but as an instrument of destiny
Unknown
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers
Jean Piaget
True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
C.S. Lewis
The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex.
Roberto Assagioli
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
Les Brown
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.
Henry David Thoreau