Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.             

                                                                                               —Brian Tracy

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

—Mary Catherine Bateson

If you don’t know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?              

                                                                                         —Basil S. Walsh

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

 —Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.                                                                                                                        

                                                                                   —Benjamin E. Mays

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.                                         

                                                                                               —Joe Paterno

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

—Thomas Jefferson

You’ve got to think about “big things” while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

—Alvin Toffler

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

—Ben Stein

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

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

—Ursula K. LeGuin