Les Brown Quotes

If you ain't aim too high, then you aim too low!

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

You'll never really be great unless you aim high.

If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

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.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

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

Small aim is a crime.

If you succeed at most of your activities, your goals are set much too low.

If you're going to set an ambition, set it high.

It's very hard to fail completely, if you aim high enough.

Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.

I'm not here to be good. I'm here to be great.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.

My goals are so high.

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.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

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