Aim For Greatness Quotes

#1. If you don't have the ambition to be the very best at what you do, then what's the point? If you aim for greatness but keep missing -- fine. At least you had the guts to aim. There's honour in failing that way. But there's nothing honourable about settling for mediocrity.

Benjamin Wood

#2. The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.

Mason Cooley

#3. Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. The joy of living is the heart of thanksgiving.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. They locked gazes in that moment, the mother and the rake. Neither doubted that a battle had been joined

Karen Ranney

#6. Amanda had way too much time to think being at the hospital without any friends. She didn't want to dwell on her thoughts for too long lest the wrong ones might emerge. She was hoping to forget what happened to her.

Jason Medina

#7. I have one love - Canada; one purpose - Canada's greatness; one aim - Canadian unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

John Diefenbaker

#8. The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

Storm Jameson

#9. I don't think anyone loses by trying to be loyal to their dreams.

Hayley Williams

#10. Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. Perhaps learning to speak is realizing, little by little, that we can say nothing about anything.

Valeria Luiselli

#12. The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

Robert Grudin