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Quotes: Aim

Quotes: Aim for the Moon

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Remember the adage, "Ignorance is bliss?" As far ambition goes, sometimes it may be a good idea to be ignorant about the possibility of failure. This is one of the sentiments expressed by this selection of quotes. Aim for the moon and make it yours. Remember, the greatest people have gone ahead to achieve their dreams despite huge odds against them.

Aristotle
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Robert Browning
Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

Elbert Hubbard
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Billy Sunday
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Bela Karolyi
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Ronald Reagan
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

W. Clement Stone
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No one does anything from a single motive.

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