"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof." Barbara Kingsolver

"If your dreams turn to dust....vacuum." Unknown

"I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become." Carl Jung

"Far away is only far away if you don't go there." O. Poro

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." Larry James

"You've got to think about 'big things' while you're doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction."  Alvin Toffler

"There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are." John Pierpont Morgan

"Strong reasons make strong actions." Shakespeare

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing." Adolph Monod

"Failure is not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to reach." Benjamin Mays

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it." Robert Heinlein

"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult."E.B. White

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another." John Dewey

“Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.” Eric Hoffer

“The end of all method is to seem to have no method.” Lu Ch'Ai

“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.” Carl Schurz, general and politician (1829-1906)

“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.” Henry Moore

“Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition.” Arnold Glasow

“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” Peter Drucker

“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.” Denis Waitley

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” anonymous

“The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have not stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin.” Benjamin E. Mayes

“No horse gets anywhere until it is harnessed. No stream drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined.” Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life’s ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.” W. Somerset Maugham

“Enthusiasm for one’s goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.” Thomas Eakins

“Rich people plan for four generations. Poor people plan for Saturday night.” Gloria Steinem

“He who would leap high must take a long run.” Danish Proverb

“Dreams can often become challenging but challenges are what we live for.” Travis White

“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.” Earl Nightingale

“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.” Henry David Thoreau

“You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.” Charles Noble