Reach Quotes - page 3

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. (Jimmy Dean)
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. View quote
Joyce Maynard
If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong. View quote
Antonin Scalia
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. View quote
Thomas Paine
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. View quote
John Dewey
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. View quote
Tennessee Williams
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure. View quote
William Ellery Channing
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. View quote
Cicero
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. View quote
Pope Paul VI
We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy. (Goldie Hawn)
When I hear the words "social responsibility", I want to reach for my gun. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. View quote
John le Carré
I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it. View quote
Cicely Tyson
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. View quote
Margaret Cho
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul. View quote
George Harrison
It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. View quote
William Cowper
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore. View quote
William Cowper
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood? View quote
Fran Lebowitz
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. (Bertrand Russell)
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. View quote
Florence Nightingale
The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object, the human body, and puts it out of reach of time and desire; it takes the most purely rational concept of which mankind is capable, mathematical order, and makes it a delight to the senses; and it takes the vague fears of the unknown and sweetens them by showing that the gods are like men and may be worshiped for their life-giving beauty rather than their death-dealing powers. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Any ape can reach for a banana, but only a human can reach for the stars or even know what that means. View quote
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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