Kirby Larson Quotes

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

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

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 bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

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.

High expectations produce high frustrations.

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

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

I'll never be on the level of my idols.

When you want too much, you don't usually achieve much.

From my birth I have aspired like the eagle - but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

Some disappointment is always the price of brave dreaming.

She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.

All I wanted to do was be a hero... But do I ever get to be a hero? All I ever get to be is the stupid goat!" "Don't be discouraged, Charlie Brown... In this life we live, there are always some bitter pills to be swallowed..." "If it's all the same with you, I'd rather not renew my perscription!

I was always a dreamer with high aspirations, but I kept coming up short my whole life.

Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth the having, it is certain never to be consummated otherwise than by a failure.