Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Reach your ambition as high as the skies! Dream as high as the skies! Because if you fell, you will fall among the stars!!
It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.
I aim for the stars, and winning a world title will not be a fulfilment of a dream for me. It never has been.
Aim higher in case you fall short.
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.
I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.
I will aim at the moon to reach the highest bounty.
Small aim is a crime; have great aim.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'
If you're not shooting for the top, then what are you doing?
Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.
That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.
I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career.
A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.
