“Small aim is a crime have great aim.”
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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.”
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.”
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...”
John Green
1 quote“Everyone wants to leave an extraordinary life.”
Thomas Carlyle
1 quote“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
Markus Zusak
1 quote“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”