“Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”

“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...”

“Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.”

“Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”

“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”

“I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall w...”

“He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.”

“I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.”

“Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.”

“It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.”

“I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.”

“...man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single grow...”