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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans. -Peter F. Drucker

Writing down your dreams and aspirations is like hanging up a sign that says, Open for Business. Or, as my friend Elaine puts it, by writing it down, you declare yourself in the game. -Henriette Anne Klauser

A goal without a deadline is a dream. -Alec Mackenzie

The significance of man is not what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain. -Kahlil Gibran

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started. -David Allen

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life. -Harvey Mackay

Pressure usually comes when we have no plan. -Jim Smoke

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting. -Barbara Tuchman

...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. -Ursula LeGuin

A half-hearted goal may get you halfway to where you want to go... but I doubt it. It's more likely to get you just as far as the first detour, and off you go in another direction. -Alec Mackenzie

Hitch your wagon to a star. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of us simply lack the imagination to envision the full scope of potential change in our lives. We are too invested in the present to consider the possibility of a threatening -- or even a promising -- future. -uncredited

Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve, And Hope without an object cannot live. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness. -Abraham Maslow

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

...for better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real. -Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. -Arnold Palmer

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan. -Harvey Mackay

Our dreams, goals, and ideas come from our values...If what we are doing does not come from what we care about most in life, it is meaningless. -G. Lynne Snead and Joyce Wycoff

Four steps to achievement: Plan puposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently. -William A. Ward

 

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