Favorite Inspirational Quotes

The greater 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.

 Michelangelo

Woe it must be to go through life setting such low goals that they are easily reached. How boring! If a goal is so low that it is easily reached, then there must be no passion within the goal…or the life of such a person.

Indeed, there must be a lot of fear. Maybe it’s the fear of failing or the fear of success or some other fear. But if you are setting goals that are so easily reached, are they really goals?

It must only be by striving for a goal that seems beyond us, and that we risk failing to reach, that we can find the real passion in life, the real joy, the real happiness. It may be necessary to take baby steps to reach a big goal but that does not mean that I should not set my aim high.

Dyer says, “You cannot fail. You can only produce results.” In other words, even in failing to reach a goal we produce results and learn something. How do you ever learn anything by setting such a low aim that you never fail?

I know I can comfortably go through a day’s work and then relax in the evening in front of the TV. Goal accomplished. But how much better might my life, and the lives of my family, be if I spent a couple hours in the evening trying to create a new business or learn a new language or learn some other skill? What if I go back to school to try for a new degree that will give me better job opportunities, even though those hours spent will be difficult and I have been out of school for quite some time? I might fail. But I might not.

Even if we fail to reach a lofty goal, if it has set us on fire with passion to reach it, we win. Look how much farther we have gotten and how much we have learned. Now we know what doesn’t work. Set another goal and do it again.