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“Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.”

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Author:Ann Landers

“Low aim, not failure, is the crime.”

Author:Bruce Lee

“The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.”

People Hands Moving Wealth Technology Products Cost Lows Machines Aim Sells Productions Fewer Industrialization

Author:Wendell Berry

“Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.”

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Author:John Boyle O'Reilly

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

Problem Missing Lows Aim

Author:Aristotle

“Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided.”

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it a grand and somewhat gaudy sense of virtue. The essay is a weapon against the degenerate tendencies of the age. The novel, properly conceived, is a means of uplifting the spirit; its aim is to inspire, not merely to satisfy the low curiosity of man in man.”

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.”

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Author:Sarah Moore Grimke

“Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.”

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Author:Scott Adams

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

Missing Lows Aim Aim High

Author:Les Brown

“Propaganda must not concern itself with what is best in man - the highest goals humanity sets for itself, its noblest and most precious feelings. Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve. It must therefore utilize the most common feelings, the most widespread ideas, the crudest patterns, and in so doing place itself on a very low level with regard to what it wants man to do and to what end. Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.”

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Author:Jacques Ellul

“Those who aim low usually hit their targets.”

Lows Aim Target

Author:James M. Barrie

“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.”

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Author:Shai Agassi

“The aim of promoting low down payments is to push prices back up so that fewer houses are going to be in negative equity and fewer people are going to walk away from the mortgages. That will save the from taking a loss on their junk mortgage loans.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“Failure is not the crime. Low aim is.”

Author:John Wooden

“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.”

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Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“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.”

“Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.”

Bigs Lows Aim Profile

Author:Deng Xiaoping

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

Failure Succeed Lows Aim

Book:Robert Browning

Source: Robert Browning

“The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren”

Lying Lows Aim Tigers

Book:Chronicles of Nick

Source: Chronicles of Nick

“Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“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.”

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Book:The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Source: The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four

“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.”

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Author:Michelangelo

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

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Author:Les Brown

“The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.”

“The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.”

Men Risk Missing Lows Aim

Author:Michelangelo

“Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low.”

Author:Herbert von Karajan

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

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Author:B.K.S. Iyengar