The greater danger for most ...

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.
 Michelangelo

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Quotes from the same author

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
 Michelangelo
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
 Michelangelo
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.
 Michelangelo
Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.
 Michelangelo
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
 Michelangelo