A Quote by Aristotle

Our problem is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and hit.

Aristotle

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Aristotle
Greek - Philosopher
384 BC - 322 BC

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

Les Brown

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

George Orwell

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

Les Brown

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Michelangelo

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.

Michelangelo

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.

Shai Agassi

If you ain't aim too high, then you aim too low!

J. Cole

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

Lecrae

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

Robert Browning

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

Friedrich Schiller

In a war without aim, you tend not to aim. You close your eyes, close your heart. The consequences become hit or miss in the most literal sense.

Tim O'Brien

A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.