Neal Shusterman Quotes

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

I don't want to be an also-ran.

Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.

Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

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.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

You don't set off in life to be mediocre. At least, I don't.

I always want to grow and top myself.

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

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

My biggest fear in life is to be average.

Dreams grow if you grow.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.