Think Big & Bold Quotes
Small thinking is the quietest way to waste a life. The men who built anything worth remembering aimed far past what looked reasonable. This path in the Purpose pillar holds the greatest quotes ever spoken on bold goals and big vision. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
“Yes, risk taking is inherently failure prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing taking.”
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.”
“Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others.”
“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.”
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.”
“Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
“There is always room at the top.”
“A person is only as big as the dream they dare to live.”
“Life is too short to be little.”
“If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.”
“Set a goal so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can.”
“Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail big”
“A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.”
“Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.”
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”
“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”
“Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.”
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine.”
“The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things.”
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do”
“While ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished.”
“A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.”
“If people haven’t laughed at your dreams, then you aren’t dreaming big enough. Just keep pushing forward.”
“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.”
“The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.”
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.”
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”
“All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision.”
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
“If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big.”
“Great hopes make great men.”
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to gather wood; teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
“Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”
“Nobody succeeds beyond their wildest expectations unless he or she begins with wild expectations.”
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
“Goals should never be easy. They should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.”
“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.”
“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.”
“Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.”
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
“Always strive to get on top in life, because it's the bottom that's overcrowded.”
“If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.”
“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
“When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history.”
“We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.”
“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
“Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit.”
“The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.”
“Fortune favors the bold.”
“We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.”
“All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far one can go.”
“The biggest temptation is to settle for too little.”
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
“Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.”
“You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.”
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”
“Dream big and dare to fail.”
“Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”
“You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”
“The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.”
“Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.”
“Natural-born entrepreneurs, we dream big. We want to do the impossible.”
“The dreamers are the saviors of the world.”
“If you’re going to be thinking, you may as well think big.”
“Big goals get big results. No goals get no results or somebody else’s results.”
“I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.”
“Big thinking precedes great achievement.”
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”
“They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do.”
“Nothing happens unless first a dream.”
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
