Jesse Itzler Quotes

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.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

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

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.

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

In 1987, I wrote a goal sheet. I didn't want to waste my life. I'd dropped out of college, and there was a lot of pressure from my parents. I decided, 'If you're going to do this, you're going to become the best in the world at this.'

It's the fear of failure that drives all of us at Red Bull.

There will always be something higher for me to reach for, and as long as there is, I'll keep reaching.

I read an article in Forbes entitled 'Six Ways To Achieve Any Goal,' and it really inspired me and helped me get to where I am today. Now everything is completely different - but I'm still not satisfied.

Fear of failure is a great thing. It pushes you past your comfort levels.

I think no matter who you are or what you do in life, you should set the bar high, that way, when you do obtain those things, you can say, I did this, but if you didn't get it, you can look an see what you needed to do to get there.

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

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it.

I've always had high ambitions and aspirations.

Dream and you shall become.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

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

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.