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.

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"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."

- Michelangelo

Inspiration

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

- Michelangelo

Inspiration

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands."

- Michelangelo

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"Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul"

- Michelangelo

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"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all."

- Michelangelo

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"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"

- President Boyd K. Packer

Ambition

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

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"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

Ambition

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

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