“Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”
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Michelangelo
3 quotes“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low...”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
3 quotes“Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”
Steve Jobs
3 quotes“Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.”
Lily Tomlin
2 quotes“I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.”
Louis L'Amour
2 quotes“He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.”
Louisa May Alcott
2 quotes“I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall w...”
C.S. Lewis
2 quotes“Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 quotes“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
James Barrie
2 quotes“It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.”
Audrey Hepburn
1 quote“I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1 quote“An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.”
Norman Vincent Peale
1 quote“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”