If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

- Laurence J. Peter

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill

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

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

- Robert J. McKain

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

- Laozi (Lao Tzu, Lao Tse, Lao Tsu)

A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

- Nathaniel Branden

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

- Lillian Hellman

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

- Henry David Thoreau

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

- Samuel Johnson

Indeed -- judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgments, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

- Emma Thompson

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

- Rita Mae Brown

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

- Henry David Thoreau

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

- Doug Larson

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

- Peter Drucker

Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

- Abraham Lincoln



Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

- Peace Pilgrim



The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.

- Benjamin Franklin



If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

- Steven Pressfield



Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky



The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

- Andrew Carnegie



Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

- Hannah More



I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.



It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts.

- Ella Fitzgerald



The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.

- Alfred Adler



My goal is to be accused of being strident.

- Susan Faludi



The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

- Susan Faludi



It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.

- Mabel Newcomber



Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

- Herodotus



Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

- John Dewey



Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

- John Naisbitt



Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

- John Dewey



Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

- Rene Descartes



Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

- David Ogilvy



All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

- Orison Swett Marden



To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I am able to change it in positive ways.

- Maxine Hong Kingston



Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

- Henry David Thoreau



Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.

- John Dewey



The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

- Michelangelo



Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.

- John Gardner



A good system shortens the road to the goal.

- Orison Swett Marden



When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

- W. Clement Stone



Nothing happens unless first we dream.

- Carl Sandburg



Our ideals resemble the stars, which illuminate the night. No one will ever be able to touch them. But the men who, like the sailors on the ocean, take them for guides, will undoubtedly reach their goal.

- Carl Schurz