1. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 1 Motivation Nothing happens unless first a dream. –Carl Sandburg

2. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 2 Motivation The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. –Eleanor Roosevelt

3. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 3 Motivation Climb High Climb Far Your goal the sky Your aim the star. –Inscription on the Hopkins Memorial Steps, Williams College

4. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 4 Motivation You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. –Woodrow Wilson

5. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 5 Motivation Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. –Belva Davis

6. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 6 Motivation It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream…. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin. –Benjamin Mays

7. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 7 Motivation Let yourself be silently drawn by the pull of what you really love. –Rumi

8. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 8 Motivation We believe that one reason so many high ‑ school and college students have so much trouble focusing on their studies is because they don't have a goal, don't know what all this studying is leading to. —Muriel James & Dorothy Jongeward

9. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 9 Motivation I started getting successful in school when I saw how college could help me achieve my dreams. —Bobby Marinelli, Student

10. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 10 Motivation Our dreams stand as beacons beckoning us on to greater growth and accomplishments. —Virginia Satir

11. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 11 Motivation If you don't dream, you may as well be dead. —George Foreman

12. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 12 Motivation What I wanted to be when I grew up was—in charge. —Brigadier General Wilma Vaught

13. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 13 Motivation Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. –Abraham Lincoln

14. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 14 Motivation From my own experience, there is no question that the speed with which you are able to achieve your goals is directly related to how clearly and how often you are able to visualize your goals. –Charles Givens

15. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 15 Motivation Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. –Buddha

16. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 16 Motivation I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time. –Diana Ross

17. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 17 Motivation Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. –William Faulkner

18. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 18 Motivation What is it that you get excited about? When does the juice really begin to run? That is what has a lot of meaning for you, and that is aligned with your purpose. You must be true to that. –Carol Hwoschinsky

19. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 19 Motivation Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. –Henry David Thoreau

20. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 20 Motivation To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act. –Anatole France

21. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 21 Motivation Where there is no vision, the people perish. –Proverbs 29:18

22. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 22 Motivation Motivation is an external, temporary high that pushes you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward. –Thomas Leonard

23. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 23 Motivation It makes no difference what your dream is–the important thing is that you declare one and dedicate yourself to it. –Joyce Chapman

24. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 24 Motivation As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can..... I visualized myself being there already – having achieved the goal already. –Arnold Schwarzenegger

25. On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Motivation - 25 Motivation If you have a dream in your heart, you'd better take it seriously. That dream is a clue to who you really are and who you can become. –Barbara Sher