Jimmy Fallon Quotes

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

I got ideas above my station, and I made mistakes.

If you get too big for your boots, if you've got big dreams, you're gonna get them broken or shattered.

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.

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.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!