“Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.”
B.K.S. Iyengar (1918–2014) Indian yoga teacher and scholar
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 177
“But as some muskets so contrive it
As oft to miss the mark they drive at,
And though well aimed at duck or plover,
Bear wide, and kick their owners over.”
Canto i, line 93.
McFingal (1775-1782)
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“We aimed far and high, but we did not miss the mark.”
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada
Part 4, 1979 - 1984 "Welcome to the 1980's", p. 340
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“3769. One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.”
"Still I Rise"
And Still I Rise (1978)
Context: Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
“In statesmanship
To strike too soon is oft to miss the blow.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
Act iii, scene 6
Queen Mary: A Drama (published 1876)
John Kenneth Galbraith book The Great Crash, 1929
Source: The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929), Chapter VIII, Aftermath I, Section III, p. 141
“Oft has it been my lot to mark
A proud, conceited, talking spark.”
James Merrick (1720–1769) British poet and philologist
The Chameleon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
