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?
I always say if I play my best it's difficult to beat me
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.
Do each day all that can be done that day. You don't need to overwork or to rush blindly into your work trying to do the greatest possible number of things in the shortest possible time. Don't try to do tomorrow's or next week's work today. It's not the number of things you do, but the quality, the efficiency of each separate action that count. To achieve this "habit of success," you need only to focus on the most important tasks and succeed in each small task of each day.
Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.
There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.
I don't train for football; I train more for a lifestyle.
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