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• If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. ~Author Unknown
  
  
• Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. ~Japanese Proverb
  
  
• When the horse is dead, get off. ~Author Unknown
  
  
• This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anyone could have. ~Author Unknown
  
  
• If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  
  
• One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ~Thomas Fuller
  
  
• When people say to me: "How do you do so many things?" I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel: "How do you do so little?" It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. ~Philip Adams
  
  
• Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~Doug Larson
  
  
• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford
  
  
• Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown
  
  
• The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
  
  
• One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard
  
  
• If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ~Lawrence J. Peter
  
  
• It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ~Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1770
  
  
• Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~Doug Larson
  
  
• Goals are dreams with deadlines. ~Diana Scharf Hunt
  
  
• The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. ~Charles DeLint
  
  
• Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot
  
  
• Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. ~Italian Proverb
  
  
• Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown
  
  
• The shortest answer is doing. ~Lord Herbert
  
  
• Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. ~Alfred Adler
  
  
• We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt
  
  
• An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold Glasow
  
  
• Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ~Brendan Francis
  
  
• Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. ~Peter Marshall
  
  
• Never mistake motion for action. ~Ernest Hemingway
  
  
• Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare
  
  
• You have brains in your head.
  You have feet in your shoes.
  You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
  You're on your own.
  And you know what you know.
  You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
  ~Dr. Seuss