Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values."
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Reaching
119 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done."
Leonard Bernstein
Composer, Conductor
"Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."
Eckhart Tolle
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"Humanity is reaching the end of the evolutionary stage of ego. The closer we get to the end, the more dysfunctional humanity becomes."
Lennox Lewis
Professional Boxer
"Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist."
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"Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey."
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"Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up."
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"We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us"
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"Your life is big. Keep reaching."
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"What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know."
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"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for."
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"Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it."
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"When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you."
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"The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it."
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"Mastery is in the reaching, not in the arriving."
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"Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route."
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"What's the good of reaching 90, if you waste 89?"
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"I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head."
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"Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some feeling that there is something larger - and there really has to be, because plainly you aren't sufficient to the situation."
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"The only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function."
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"It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching."
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"A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest."
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"Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment"
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"If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader."
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"To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas"
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