777 quotes found
“Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.”
“I truly believe that before I retire from public office I'll be voting for a woman for president.”
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“Aim at perfection in everything though in most things it is unattainable. However they who aim at it and persevere will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them gi...”
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.”
“Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them but I can look up and see the beauty believe in them and try to follow where they lead.”
“Not failure but low aim is crime.”
“Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.”
“Man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?”
“You have to erect a fence and say "Okay scale this."”
“You must learn day by day year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love the more you are interested in the more you enjoy the more you are indignant about the more you have left wh...”
“What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.”
“Happiness is not the end of life character is.”
“If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.”
“We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.”
“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the be...”
“The measure of a life after all is not its duration but its donation.”
“When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes of itself.”
“Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them you are not necessary to anyone.”
“Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.”
