Dream Big Quotes

“We need to replace what we’ve settled for with what we’ve been longing for.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“The people you spend time with will play the largest part in the ambitions you achieve, not the minutes you saved each day by avoiding them. Be available. Talk to everyone. Become their student, not their teacher. Love’s goal isn’t ever efficiency; it’s presence.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“Only strangers will remember you for your job titles. The bad jobs can get us ready for the better ones and the better ones can prepare us for the best ones. Don't lament your bad ones; just don't stay in them...What we do isn't who we are.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“I enter each day assuming there’s a thirty-eighth miracle waiting for me if I’ll fully engage life and the people around me with love, honesty, and an unreasonable, almost annoying heap of expectation. What would happen in your life if you started doing the same?”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“Take the next step. Don’t just look awake; come alive to who God has made you to be. Practice walking around fully awake to yourself. Take notes, sing songs, laugh a lot, smell the flowers, roll on the grass, write the letter, take the class, make the call. You’re not doing this just for fun; it’s one of your first steps as you wake up to some of your slumbering ambitions.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“If ambitions had two handles, they would be love and hope. There have never been two forces in the world more powerful than these. Much of life involves simply grabbing ahold of love and hope and never letting go.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“Your words have tremendous power. They might be the most powerful thing any of us really have. Use them wisely. Use them sparingly. Unlock their power with intention. Recognize that a few right words have the power to sustain you.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You're Going to Do About It

“While no efforts of yours or mine will be more important than loving God and the people around us,”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“You'll know you're on the scent of a worthwhile, lasting ambition when the strong scent of a smoldering fire wouldn't dampen your resolve to build it twice even before you had built it for the first time.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“Having a day job and earning what I needed was a version of fundraising I could understand. Becoming a lawyer had been an ambition of mine when I was in my twenties, and it was something I was able to do well. I decided to let this earlier ambition serve my next ambition. You can do the same.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“Here’s some great news. The next version of you is the one who will pursue the ambitions all the previous versions were unable to accomplish.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“snarky.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“pout”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“improbable”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“pious”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“winnowing”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“otherness.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“impediments”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“morphed”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“invigorate”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“ole”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“encumbered”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“vet”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“discernment.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“guile”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“clearheadedness”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“kindred”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“sheepishly,”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“kayaking”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It

“freckles.”
― Bob Goff, Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You’re Going to Do About It