Quotes About Aiming Too High

#1. I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

Peter Scott

#2. One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

Thomas Fuller

#3. As an american, you're born aiming so high - boys want to play in the major leagues, girls want to be princesses. We're cultivating little champions. It's like the land of little champions.

Steven Conrad

#4. Love is the spirit of life unto the adorned body of mankind, the establisher of true civilization in this mortal world, and the shedder of imperishable glory upon every high-aiming race and nation.

Abdu'l- Baha

#5. Eh, it's not that attractive to have a plan.

Bill Murray

#6. It's not about what I say, right? It's what I do that matters here.

Amie Kaufman

#7. Only if you reach the boundary will the boundary recede before you. And if you don't, if you confine your efforts, the boundary will shrink to accommodate itself to your efforts. And you can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit.

Hugh Nibley

#8. Letting out a deep breath, he pressed his forehead down to mine. With his eyes closed, he whispered, "That's what love is ... It's scary not knowing what's expected, but I know it'll be the best frightening love we've ever had." - Marcus (Disastrous)

E.L. Montes

#9. Aim for the high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, not the second time and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect. Finally you'll hit the bull's-eye of success.

Annie Oakley

#10. If I don't fail at something everyday, I wasn't aiming high enough.

Kathryn Orzech

#11. I am not some frill-wearing tramp. I am a genius. I say this because it is a fact. I am smarter than any person you've ever met, except perhaps my twin. My heart does not make my brain a fool.

Pierce Brown

#12. Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.

Shai Agassi

#13. A military leader thinks about casualties and losses, but a strategic one only aims the win.

M.F. Moonzajer

#14. This is a unique scandal in Italian football history - with Juventus as the victims of an injustice.

John Foot

#15. In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

Wallace Shawn

#16. Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Michelangelo

#17. What will I do? I'll do as I have always done, darling. I will go on. I will survive. I shall overcome." It's tough to manage sounding like Scarlett O'Hara, Gloria Gaynor, and a one-woman civil rights movement all at the same time, but Anjoli pulled it off with aplomb.

Jennifer Coburn

#18. When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'

Jim Bankoff

#19. I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

Brie Larson

#20. Sometimes, proceeding in the dark and aiming an arrow at the elusive, mythical dragon trumps all the rational arguments for not proceeding. Sometimes, the stakes are so high and the status quo is so unacceptable that taking aim in any direction is better than not shooting at all.

Rebecca J. Anderson

#21. God set His standards this high so that we won't make the mistake of aiming low. He made them unreachable so that we would never have the excuse to stop growing.

Alex Harris

#22. When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men clambering over walls and getting tangled in barbed wire.

Andrew O'Hagan

#23. As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.

Kit Harington

#24. Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.

Diana Wynne Jones

#25. Pa
I did exactly as you said, Pa
I held my head up high..

Even before we got to ten
I was aiming for the sky
I was aiming for the sky

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#26. If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

Alan Kay

#27. If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

LeCrae

#28. Aim at a high mark and you'll hit it. No, not the first time, nor the second time. Maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting for only practice will make you perfect.

Annie Oakley

#29. In any sauce you make, start with a concentration of flavors with great acidity. You then re-dilute the sauce, but the proportion of liquid you add should not be so high that you wash away the extracted flavor you're aiming to create.

Daniel Boulud

#30. Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was all there was.

Frederick Lenz

#31. A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.

Fernando Pessoa

#32. If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.

Benny Lewis