goal (n.)
- aim
- ambition
- anchorage
- aspiration
- basis
- bourn
- butt
- calling
- catastrophe
- cause
- cessation
- coda
- conclusion
- consideration
- consummation
- culmination
- curtain
- death
- decease
- denouement
- destination
- destiny
- doom
- duty
- effect
- end
- ending
- envoi
- epilogue
- eschatology
- expiration
- fate
- finale
- finality
- finis
- finish
- function
- game
- ground
- harbor
- haven
- hit
- hole
- homer
- ideal
- inspiration
- intention
- izzard
- last
- lodestar
- mainspring
- mark
- matter
- motive
- object
- objective
- omega
- payoff
- period
- peroration
- port
- prey
- principle
- purpose
- pursuit
- quarry
- quietus
- reason
- resolution
- sake
- score
- slam
- source
- spring
- stop
- stoppage
- strike
- target
- teleology
- term
- terminal
- termination
- terminus
- touchdown
- use
- vocation
- windup
Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill.
Life is real! life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
A sacred burden is this life ye bear:
Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly,
Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly.
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,
But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.
