“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer
“Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars.”
Variant: Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
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