A Quote by W. Clement Stone

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

W. Clement Stone

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Motivational Aim Hit May Miss Moon Star

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W. Clement Stone
American - Businessman
May 4, 1902 - September 3, 2002

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

Les Brown

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

Aristotle

Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.

Ian Holloway

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

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

Les Brown

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

Charles Dickens

If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.

P. T. Barnum

We could get together all over the world, all races, hold hands together, and hum to death, and try to move the moon where the sun is, move the sun where the moon is at, and send a little piece of a star down there and burn all our asses up. We could get into the science, and make bombs and all that stuff, but you still ain't gonna hit the supreme force or the power that put all this into motion.

Afrika Bambaataa

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

Henry David Thoreau

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot.

Benjamin Franklin

Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

Orson Scott Card

When you shoot a bow and arrow, you aim at the clouds, not because you expect to hit them, but so that you may reach the distant target on the ground.

Sun Tzu

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

They say asteroids hit the moon pretty often, which is how the moon gets its crater, but this one is going to be the biggest asteroid ever to hit it and on a clear night you should be able to see the impact when it happens, maybe even with the naked eye but certainly with binoculars. They made it sound pretty dramatic, but I still don't think it's worth three homework assignments.