William Shatner Quotes

Ambition aspires to descend.

Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

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

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

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.

Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause.

If you aim higher than you expect, you could reach higher than you dreamed.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

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.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly. This way, nobody needs to grow any wings, which would be impossible anyway because we're humans and not some kind of bird.

You might find me outside with a can of hair spray, spraying it with the hope that the sun will burn a hole in the Earth. Another part of me hopes people will grow up and evolve and get smarter. That's the paradox of Marilyn Manson.

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

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

You're never too old to start learning, and you're never too young to aim high and achieve great things.

If you want to improve, you have to set high targets.

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

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.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Always reach for the moon cuz if u slip up u will still be a star!! #Jeah

Michael [Marcus] taught me one thing that was incredibly important... He taught me that you could make a million dollars. He showed me that if you applied yourself, great things could happen. It is very easy to miss the point that you really can do it.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.