Reaching Quotes

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  Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

  Erich Fromm

  Effort, Greed, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Lying, Goals Dreams, Mind

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• Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Optimize Your Life!" by Bernhoff A. Dahl, p. 111, 2005.

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• The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

  Max De Pree

  Leadership, Learning, Grace

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

  Zig Ziglar

  Success, Ambition, Will And Determination

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 22, 2014

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.

  Jennifer James

  Inspirational, Success, Journey

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

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• The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

  William M. Evarts

  Rocks, Plymouth, Knees

  Quoted in Louisville Courier-Journal, 4 July 1913.

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• Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Song, Truth, Heart

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• Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Motivational, Yoga, Positivity

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• Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Success, Business

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 20, 2013

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• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

  Walter Benjamin

  Art, Epic, Dying

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

  Louis Kahn

  Design, Architecture, Reach Out

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• I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

  Milton Berle

  Love, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

  Claude Debussy

  Sexy, Feelings, Naked

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• Don't keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Stars, Looks, Way

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• Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Birthday, Success, Disappointment

  "Audrey Hepburn : A Life in Pictures". Book by Yann-Brice Dherbier, Pierre-Henri Verlhac, 2007.

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• The woman's vision is deep-reaching, the man's far-reaching.

  Betty Grable

  Men, Vision, Great Vision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.

  Dorothy Height

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Perseverance

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• A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 121), 2000.

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