Kahlil Gibran

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.

Michel de Montaigne

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Brian Tracy

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Samuel Butler

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.

Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

Charles Noble

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Guy Finley

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

Plutarch

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Victor Cousins

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

Francis Bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Lee Iacocca

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Henry Ward Beecher

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.

Lucretius

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Mary Shelley

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Matthew Prior

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.