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Apostle Paul1 quote
Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. — Apostle Paul · 62Ellen Johnson Sirleaf1 quote
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you they are not big enough. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf · 2011George Bernard Shaw1 quote
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. — George Bernard Shaw · 1896Henry David Thoreau1 quote
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1 quote
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1882Learned Hand1 quote
The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action. — Learned Hand · 1893Mary Shelley1 quote
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. — Mary Shelley · 1818Philip Sidney1 quote
Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark; yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush. — Philip Sidney · 1593Seneca1 quote
If a person knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. — Seneca · 65