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Les Brown24
American politician 1945Related quotes
“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
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
The Inn Album, iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“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)
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
W. Clement Stone (1902–2002) American New Thought author
As quoted in The Power of Choice (2007) by Joyce Guccione, p. 199
also attributed to Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) and Les Brown (1912–2001)
Misattributed
“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
Memoirs (1993)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
Attributed without citation in Ken Robinson, The Element (2009), p. 260. Widely attributed to Michelangelo since the late 1990s, this adage has not been found before 1980 when it appeared without attribution in E. C. McKenzie, Mac's giant book of quips & quotes.
Disputed
Variant: 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.
"A Grammarian's Funeral", line 115.
Men and Women (1855)