A goal is a desired result an animal or a system envisions, plans and commits to achieve—a personal or organizational desired end-point in some sort of assumed development. Many people endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines.
It is roughly similar to purpose or aim, the anticipated result which guides reaction, or an end, which is an object, either a physical object or an abstract object, that has intrinsic value.
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Famous quotes containing the word goal:
“It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“No one
Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally.
Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man.”
—Stephen Spender (1909–1995)
“The mind that has no fixed goal loses itself; for, as they say, to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)