The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Interpretation
It's more dangerous to have low ambitions than to aim high and fail.
Michelangelo emphasizes that individuals often limit themselves by not striving for their true potential. Rather than fearing failure from high aspirations, the real peril lies in being content with mediocre goals and thereby failing to realize oneβs fullest abilities and potential.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students about their future careers.
The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free.
We have within us, a power that is greater than anything we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life and set us safe, satisfied and at peace, healed and prosperous, in a new light, and in a new life.
I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.
Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.
I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
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