First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

—Epictetus

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 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

An ignorance of means may minister / To greatness, but an ignorance of aims / Make it impossible to be great at all.

—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

—Ben Stein

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

—Helen Keller

Most of us think having a list of priorities is a sign of a motivated, serious person. But there is one essential flaw in this perspective. We are not guaranteed a future; and even if we were we could not live in it. All we have is now.

—George Lawrence-Ell

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

—Henry David Thoreau