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 so big that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can.”
“You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”
“If people haven’t laughed at your dreams, then you aren’t dreaming big enough. Just keep pushing forward.”
“If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.”
“Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.”
“Always strive to get on top in life, because it's the bottom that's overcrowded.”
“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”
“There is always room at the top.”
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”
“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?”
“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.”
“Fortune favors the bold.”
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far one can go.”
“In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.”
“Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail big”
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do”
“Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”
“They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.”
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
“Yes, risk taking is inherently failure prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing taking.”
“Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.”
“The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things.”
“The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.”
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
“Dream big and dare to fail.”
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
“When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history.”
“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.”
“Natural-born entrepreneurs, we dream big. We want to do the impossible.”
“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.”
“The dreamers are the saviors of the world.”
“You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created.”
“They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do.”
“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.”
“While ideas ultimately can be so powerful, they begin as fragile, barely formed thoughts, so easily missed, so easily compromised, so easily just squished.”
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine.”
“Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.”
“We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.”
“The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.”
“Everything you see, touch, or use in your daily life started as just a single thought.”
“Big dreams don't cost any more than little ones.”
“The happiest people in life operate out of their imaginations and dreams, and not their histories.”
“Make your dreams big enough that the dreams of others can fit inside of it.”
“The difference between a vision and a hallucination is that other people can see the vision.”
“Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you’ll probably end up in a pretty good place.”
“You can’t build an important company without being optimistic.”
“We don’t aim high enough with our goals. We all have more in us, and we are all capable of aiming higher.”
