Set Your Sights Quotes

#1. So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

Price Pritchett

#2. Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.

William Rainey Harper

#3. Follow your interests, get the best available education and training, set your sights high, be persistent, be flexible, keep your options open, accept help when offered, and be prepared to help others.

Mildred Dresselhaus

#4. Think proactively and dynamically. Be realistic, but set your sights high.

Lorii Myers

#5. Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even after I started writing it, I was like, 'Oh my God, how am I gonna write a book?' Just set your sights high and reach for the stars. Go live your dreams, and never think you can't.

Connor Franta

#6. Set your sights high, the higher the better.
Expect the most wonderful things to happen,
not in the future but right now.
Realize that nothing is too good.
Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you
or hold you up in any way.

Eileen Caddy

#7. I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.

Neil Gaiman

#8. Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.

Rumi

#9. Don't set your sights low, just because someone else has a limited view of life's possibilities. One person's comfort zone may be another person's cage.

Eleanor Brownn

#10. But such niggling distractions on the periphery matter little once you've set your sights so squarely on what you want most. By

Dan Fesperman

#11. If you want to be a virtuoso then you have to set your sights above me. You have to go beyond what I'm doing. And that's for you to figure out. Because if you can do that, then I'm going to be trying to go beyond you.

Steve Vai

#12. It is a fine thing, to set your sights on crystal towers and golden thrones," Hans Peter said quietly. "But first you had better see what lurks within those towers, and what sits on those thrones.

Jessica Day George

#13. If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

Alan Bennett

#14. Set your sights beyond what you can see. There is true majesty in the concept of an unseen power which can neither be measured nor weighed.

Ted Koppel

#15. That was how the world worked, wasn't it? You set your sights on something, and life came along with a sucker punch.

Patrick Ness

#16. You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.

Willi Unsoeld

#17. No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Jessica Savitch

#18. Set your sights so high that even failure has in it an echo of glory.

Anonymous

#19. I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

Aaron Levie

#20. May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill.

Jan Phillips

#21. On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.

Derek Jarman

#22. We need to stop shuffling service parts randomly and set our sights on a goal, something we are moving toward in every service element.

James MacDonald

#23. The only way our faith will ever strengthen is for us to use it. We need to apply thought and prayer to our decisions and then trust God for the outcome. We need to set our sights on growing in faith, not shrinking back for fear of failure.

Lysa TerKeurst

#24. Lost Cactus is a cornucopia of sights, sounds and inhabitants completely foreign to a little squirrel like Sammy, but attempting to set him straight will only complicate matters.

John Hopkins

#25. You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence.

John Fowles

#26. We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.

George C. Marshall

#27. With one hundred miles left to go in the Klondike 200 I began imagining how amazed people would be at the finished line. Entering the Klondike, my sights had been set on merely finishing.

Brian Patrick O'Donoghue

#28. Alfriston is a compact village set around a rather traffic-weary High Street, mainly of old, timbered buildings. The principal sights lie to the east on the river side.

David Hewson

#29. We are all these things [ ... ]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty ... and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights.

Jacqueline Carey

#30. She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.

Johanna Lindsey

#31. With the taste of rum in my mouth and the sting of remembrance in my heart, I set my sights on the man who killed my family.

Kelsey Sutton

#32. In the end, everything happens for a reason. Paths are meant to be crossed for a higher purpose than what we realize at the moment. Life for everyone goes on. This is just a fork in the road that has taken me for a slight detour. Tomorrow I'll pick up a new map and set my sights on a new direction.

A.M. Willard

#33. You've been busy matchmaking everyone in this city ... and beyond." Gerri winked. "Careful, before I set my sights on you.

Milly Taiden

#34. The paranormal bad boy is usually a fiercely loyal partner for the heroine. Once his sights are set on her, he doesn't notice other women, and he's utterly unconcerned with what anyone else thinks of his choice.

Jeaniene Frost

#35. This great American institution [Boy Scouts of America] has come under attack from homosexual activists-who may well set their sights on your church next.

Jay Sekulow

#36. When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.

Koichi Tanaka

#37. My mother, in the style of the times, told me I could do anything I set my sights on. She said I could be the president, an astronaut, or the next Charles Schulz. I believed her because at that point in my life I hadn't yet noticed the pattern of her deceptions.

Scott Adams

#38. My dream was to go to Nashville. I had my sights set on my dream. I used to have an '89 Toyota Ford truck. On the front of the truck, I had this license plate with cowboy boots and a guitar that I had airbrushed at Wal-Mart. It said 'Chasin' A Dream.' That was kind of my motto.

Josh Turner

#39. All of this presupposes that I have set my sights on a single male.'
Susan's eyes bugged out. 'You certainly cannot set your signs on a married man!'
'I meant a particular man,' Elizabeth retorted, swatting her sister on the shoulder.

Julia Quinn

#40. Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

Ban Ki-moon

#41. A lot of people these days are too ambitious; their sights are set too high at the start and they end up diving in too deep, quitting their day job too soon. They move to Vegas or wherever, make an all-or-nothing commitment before they're ready, and burn out.

Phil Ivey

#42. I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

Judy Chicago

#43. My aim over the next few months is that I have a lot of points to defend in Miami and Hamburg, after that I can set my sights on No. 1.

Roger Federer

#44. I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

Xander Berkeley

#45. I swear, Sophie, I think there's something wrong with me. Every man I meet is intolerable. Perhaps I should set my sights lower[ ... ]

Mary Ann Shaffer

#46. Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.

Robert Gottlieb

#47. Akagi, the man named Akagi Shigeru. Money, fame, power... all the things that most people desire... he never set his sights on such things. All he ever was, was himself.

Nobuyuki Fukumoto

#48. Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.

Walter Dean Myers

#49. [My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career." ... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?

Annie Elizabeth Delany

#50. I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#51. A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

Jude Morgan

#52. Tesla already has its sights set on producing a large-volume electric vehicle in three years or so.

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