We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Interpretation
Setting ambitious goals increases the likelihood of achieving success.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of aspiring to high standards and ambitious goals. By aiming higher than what we initially expect to achieve, we can still reach our targets even if we fall short, leading to greater accomplishments than if we had set our sights lower.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech to inspire an audience to set ambitious goals.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.
There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what?
If you like me, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards
No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit.
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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