Sophie Swetchine Quotes

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

Even I admit I may have peaked too soon.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.

When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all.

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.

Temerity is not always successful.

Nothing fails like success.

In the past I've thrown my wicket away on certain occasions.

I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.

Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

If you're going to be a bum, be the biggest. If you're going to blow it, blow it big.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

Hew not too high, lest the chips fall in thine eye.

... fluctuating emotions ... [lead] us to excesses of both intervention and abdication.

What youth considers liberation, maturity considers tasteless excess.

When I served as Prime Minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once and ended my administration in failure.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.

Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

I can be wildly enthusiastic and want to try to do everything that I feel would be useful and educational and beneficial - but I've crashed and burned a few times.

I'm an ambitious person. I mean, if I did that... I would self-destruct, in the sense that the decadence would be too strong an attraction for me. Whether that be in the form of gambling, fast cars, alcohol, drugs, whatever it happens to be... I think the lure of that lifestyle would be too strong.