History Main / GoalInLife

* Manga/UraraMeirocho: According to Kon, it is every girls' dream to go to Labyrinth Town to become diviners. All the main girls have some variation of the same goal: study and learn {{Whatevermancy}} and master their own divination technique to become powerful {{Seers}}/{{Fortune Teller}}s ("Urara") to divine solutions for themselves or others.

* Manga/UraraMeirocho: According to Kon, it is every girls' dream to go to Labyrinth Town to become diviners. All the main girls have some variation of the same goal: study and learn {{Whatevermancy}} and master their own divination technique to become powerful {{Seers}}/{{Fortune Teller}}s or "Urara" to divine solutions for themselves or others.

* Manga/UraraMeirocho: According to Kon, it is every girls' dream to go to Labyrinth Town to become diviners. All the main girls have some variation of the same goal: study and learn {{Whatevermancy}} and master their own divination technique to find hidden paths or solutions.
** While the other girls mainly want to use their powers become powerful {{Seers}}/{{Fortune Teller}}s, Chiya wants to use divination to find her {{Missing Mom}}.

* Manga/UraraMeirocho: According to Kon, it is every girls' dream to go to Labyrinth Town to become diviners. All the main girls have some variation of the same goal: study and learn {{Whatevermancy}} and master their own divination technique to find hidden paths or solutions

** While the other girls mainly want to use their powers become powerful {{Seers}}/{{FortuneTeller}}s, Chiya wants to use divination to find her {{MissingMom}}.

* UraraMeirocho: According to Kon, it is every girls' dream to go to Labyrinth Town to become diviners. All the main girls have some variation of the same goal: study and learn {{Whatevermancy}} and master their own divination technique to find hidden paths or solutions
** While the other girls mainly want to use their powers become powerful {{Seers}}/{{Fortunetellers}}, Chiya wants to use divination to find her {{MissingMom}}.

* Most characters in the cast of ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'' have one of these, to the point the characters that don't start to find it distressing.
** For Mira and Ao, it's their childhood promise of finding an asteroid.
** For Mari, to become an astronaut.
** For Moe, who is probably going to inherit the {{family|business}} bakery, to become the largest baker in the world.

* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' [[DeconstructionFic deconstructs]] [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Goh's mission]] to chase after Mew by highlighting how this has driven a wedge between him and his ChildhoodFriend Chloe. When she finally confronts him, he declares that she doesn't have any right to criticize him because she doesn't ''have'' any goals or dreams of her own. She runs away from home, wishing for a world where there's no Pokémon or pressure to [[FollowInMyFootsteps follow in her father's footsteps]]... and encounters the WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain, which takes her on a [[JourneyToFindOneself journey to find herself]].

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Ash wants to be a Pokémon master. What exactly that means is never defined, but it involves being a strong trainer with a deep understanding and close relationship with Pokémon.

-->-- '''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

*** As he [[LargeHam loudly proclaims]] [[CatchPhrase many times]] in the series, Monkey D. Luffy's goal is to become the Pirate King.

* All the girls on the DOmestic Arts track in ''Literature/GirlsKingdom'' have the goal of becoming maids ([[NaiveNewcomer Misaki aside]]) but Kirara has put every fiber of her being into beocming one since she was young, and her ultimate goal is to become a maid to a very rich girl. She actually accomplishes this in book two, landing an exclusive contract with Kagura, who plans on starting a world-class sporting goods company when she graduates, but has many more trials and tribulations ahead of her as a maid, many of which come from Kagura's other two maids, [[MemeticMolester the Kokonoe twins]].

** The titular character ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' dreams of becoming Hokage, the leader of the Hidden Leaf Village, and gaining the respect of his people after a childhood of neglect and loneliness. [[spoiler: He becomes Hokage No.7]]

Someone who forgets his Goal in Life has suffered MotiveDecay. The MotivationIndex has a few life long goals that a person's Goal in Life may be expressed through, although not all would qualify, especially if it's not specific enough or too short term. See the related SeriesGoal for the goal of the work in question, instead of an individual character's goal. DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife is for those whose Goal in Life is to ''find'' a [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Goal in Life]]. TheMeaningOfLife is for when a work actually defines what the Goal in Life in general is.

* All of the Straw Hat Pirates of ''Manga/OnePiece'' are sailing together to fulfill their dreams.
** As he [[LargeHam loudly proclaims]] [[CatchPhrase many times]] in the series, Monkey D. Luffy's goal is to become the Pirate King.
** Roronoa Zoro seeks to be the [[WorldsBestWarrior world's greatest swordsman]] to fulfill a childhood promise.
** Nami wants to be the first to draw a map of the entire world.
** Usopp wants to become, in his words, a brave warrior of the seas.
** Sanji wants to discover the All Blue, a legendary body of water said to be home to every kind of fish in the world.
** Tony Tony Chopper wants to become a doctor capable of curing every disease in the world.
** Nico Robin wants to discover all of the poneglyphs and learn the truth of the Void Century.
** Franky wants to build and sail a ship strong enough to travel every corner of the world.
** Brook wants to reunite with his friend Laboon and deliver his former crew's last message to him.