Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.--Mary Catherine Bateson (Composing a Life) 

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.--Mary Kay Ash 

The Great Society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.--Lyndon Johnson (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe) 

The greater 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 

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.--Seneca 

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.--Dan Dierdorf 

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?--Basil S. Walsh 

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.--Laurence Johnston Peter 

If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.--Greg McKeown 

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.--Brian Tracy 

If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.--Zig Ziglar

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.--Dale E. Turner 

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.--Henry David Thoreau 

Dreams get you into the future and add excitement to the present.-Robert Conklin 

Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them.--Josie Bisset 

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.--Sir James M. Barrie 

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.--Steven Callahan 

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.--Roger Von Oech 

Empower your dreams with deadlines.--H. Jackson Brown (?) (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999) 

Enough! It's time to grow up. If we want to play adult games--living our Dream--we must play by adult rules. One of the primary adult rules: We are individually responsible for our own lives.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.--Douglas Pagels 

Every dreamer works in violent disagreement with their times.--Conway Stone 

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.--Harriet Tubman 

The excitement, the true excitement, was always in starting again. Nothing's worse than an accomplished task, a realized dream.--Marilyn Harris 

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, 

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.--Ludwig Wittgenstein 

If reality can destroy dreams, then dreams can destroy reality.--Conway Stone 

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.--William Arthur Ward 

If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs.--Tony Gaskins 

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them!--Henry David Thoreau 

If you try to guard yourself against every unlikely danger, you'll never stretch beyond your comfort zone. Don't let the 'what-ifs' run your life. Follow your dreams and have at it.--Diane Conway (What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?) 

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.--Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

In each of us there is a private hope and dream, which fulfilled, can be translated into benefits for everyone, and greater strength for our nation.--John F. Kennedy 

In order to make your dreams come true, you must awaken and take charge.--Natasha Newsome 

In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.--Joan Chittister (The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully) 

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.--Henry David Thoreau 

Inside each of us are thoughts and beliefs that hinder our dreams from coming true.--Conway Stone 

It doesn't matter if we think we're fearless or if we do things while quaking. The important thing is to be true to our own dreams and live authentic lives.--Diane Conway (What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?) 

It is difficult to say what is impossible for the dream of yesterday is the reality of tomorrow.--Dr. Robert H. Goddard 

It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God’s greatest gifts are given.--Wintley Phipps 

It may be those who do most, dream most.--Stephen Leacock 

It must be born in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity to not dream. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure but low aim is sin!--Helmut Schmidt 

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.--Eric Hoffer 

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.--Emily Bronte 

Keep thou thy dreams – the tissue of all wings
Is woven in them; from dreams are made
The precious and imperishable things,
Whose loveliness lives in, and does not fade.--Virna Sheard 

The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true!--James Allen 

Life is never easy for those who dream.--Robert James Waller ("Border Music") 

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.--Charles Lindbergh 

Living well must become intentional. Don’t stop dreaming what your life can yet be.–-Wayne Cordeiro 

Look, there are no shortcuts in golf, and there are no shortcuts in life. You have to work for it. Dream big and keep your dreams for yourself. Because the dreams that you have are those things that separate you from others. If you give up your dream, you give up hope. And without hope, you are nothing.--Tiger Woods 

Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood.--D.B. Hudson 

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.--Elie Wiesel 

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.--Zadoc Rabinowitz 

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.--Arnold Schwarzenegger 

The more you can dream, the more you can do.--Michael Korda 

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.--Kahlil Gibran 

Most people never run far enough on their first wind, to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.--William James 

...my dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed--my dearest pleasure when free.--Mary Shelley 

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.--Thomas Jefferson 

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.-- Earl Nightingale 

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.--Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.--John Henry Newman 

Ability is of little account without opportunity.--Napoleon Bonaparte 

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.--Lou Holtz 

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.–-John Wooden 

Ability without honor is useless.--Marcus Tullius Cicero

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.--I Ching 

Perseverance and audacity generally win.--Dorothee DeLuzy 

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.--Henry W. Longfellow 

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.--Julie Andrews

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.--Rosalynn Carter