Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell LowellRead
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... Or does it explode?
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