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?
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Everybody is going to be excited to play in a Super Bowl. When you still enjoy the preparation and the work part of it, I think you ought to be still doing that. I think as soon as I stop enjoying it, if I can't produce, if I can't help a team, that's when I will stop playing.
An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
Above all, donβt fear difficult moments. The best comes from them
Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.
There's absolutely no limit to what plain, ordinary, working people can accomplish if they're given the opportunity and encouragement to do their best.
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