What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals. - Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe

A dream without a goal is just a wish. Bill Cole

A goal, not in writing, is simply a wish. Mac Anderson

Yesterday's passions may not serve tomorrow's goals . Frederic Hudson

Short-term goals are the stepping stones to the bigger ones. Beth Pugh

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us
past the short term obstacles.--Jim Rohn

Within our dreams and aspirations, we find our opportunities. Sue Ebaugh

Your aspirations are your possibilities. Samuel Johnson

I was saying "I'm the greatest" long before I believed it. Muhammad Ali

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.  Eleanor Roosevelt

It may be that those who dream most do most. Stephen Leacock

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother to just be better than our contemporaries and predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.  William Faulkner.

Be careful of what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours R. W. Emerson

Since you can't predict the future, create it.  Peter Drucker

Nothing happens unless first a dream.  Carl Sandburg

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  Emerson

The most important thing about goals is having one.-- Geoffrey Albert

It is only through deep commitments that you can discover who you really are, grow to your fullest capacity, maintain meaningful connections to the rest of the world & give freely to others.  Lou Tice

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. -Calvin Coolidge.

Be of good cheer.
Do not think of today's failures,
but of the success that may come tomorrow.
You have set yourselves a difficult task,
but you will succeed if you persevere;
and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
Remember, no effort that we make to attain
something beautiful is ever lost.      - Helen Keller

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.  Albert Einstein 

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a moment longer, never give up then--for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting --Christopher Morley

Goals motivate. John Maxwell

If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done -- Nido Qubein

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.  Alphonse de Lamartine

Winning is easy...all you have to do is outlast your opponent. -- Doug Firebaugh

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.               --  Jeremy Kitson

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of
the weak, becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.
--Thomas Carlysle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire
cat in a tree.
     'Which road do I take?' she asked.
     'Where do you want to go?' was his response.
     'I don't know,' Alice answered.
     'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.'
--Lewis Carroll, From Alice in Wonderland

 Identify and honor your heart's deepest dreams and highest aspirations.  Create plans to fulfill your desires. L. Walkup

Goal setting is the core of existence that defines life. Joanne Bonomi

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but
rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of
him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any
cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be
fulfilled by him.
--Victor Frankl, Psychoanalyst & Concentration Camp Survivor

It is better to have a bad plan than no plan at all.  Charles De Gaulle

Some dream worthy accomplishments; other stay awake and do them.

If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep.  Yiddish proverb

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep,
for every dream precedes the goal.  --Ralph Vaull Starr

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-
winged bird, that cannot fly. -- Langston Hughes

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will
remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. --
Robert Schuller

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if
one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors
to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success
unexpected in common hours.  Henry David Thoreau
                               
It may be those  who do most, dream most. Stephen Ecock

Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.--Phantom F. Harlock

The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.
               --  Eleanor Roosevelt

Reach high, for stars hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for  every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Star

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die
today. -- James Dean

A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person
with all the facts. -- Dayle Maloney

When you cease to dream you cease to live. -- Malcolm S.
Forbes

All successful men and women are big dreamers. They
imagine what their future could be, ideal in every
respect, and then they work every day toward their distant
vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy

 Create plans to fulfill your desires.  L. Walkup
 

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope their dreams will come true.- Woodrow Wilson

Dreams expand our universe. Dreams are the heart.
Goals focus on performance. Goals are on spreadsheets. Phil Humbert

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. 
They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every
respect, and then they work every day toward their distant
vision, that goal or purpose. -- Brian Tracy

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his
heart, will one day realize it.  Dream lofty dreams and as
you dream so shall you become... -- James Allen


Nothing happens unless first a dream.  --Carl Sandburg

A dream without a goal is just a wish. Bill Cole

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have
conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. -- Dr. Jonas
Salk

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there
are some who face reality; and then there are those who
turn one into the other. -- Douglaus Everett

The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.   --  Eleanor Roosevelt

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness
has genius, power and magic in it. --Goethe

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream
things that never were and ask why not. -- George Bernard Shaw
       

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. 
Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. 
Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible.   --  Thomas Robert Gaines

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff
of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we
maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful
life. - Leo Buscaglia
   

A person with big dreams is more powerful than a person
with all the facts. - D.  Maloney

Lesson Plan:

Which is your favorite quote?
Write a paragraph on it.  share your quote and thoughts with the class.

Place your favorite quote on an index card & tape it to the inside cover of your book.  why is it meaningful to you?  Look up info on the author.  Memorize the quote.