Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
Everything which relates to God is infinite. We must therefore, while we keep our hearts humble, keep our aims high. Our highest services are indeed but finite, imperfect. But as God is unlimited in goodness, He should have our unlimited love.
He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.
I've always had very high aims for my life and for my career, for anything that I do.
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
We're not perfect but we're the envy of the world.
I have some really lofty goals that don't even scratch upon the Olympics.
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
I never had lofty dreams of doing important things.
Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.
Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.
The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.
The vigor of civilized societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth-while.
