30 Quotes About Reaching

Stop reaching out for more & more. Appreciate what you have, or one day you will be left with just pieces of what you once took for granted.

The risk in reaching for great things is that they might elude our grasp. But have we considered that the ‘reaching’ might in fact have been the great thing?

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light.There you go . . . That was easy!

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is a child of God.

Skyscrapers tower above me, lifeless, iron giants stretching for the sky, reaching toward something more. And I’m reaching, too.

Take the challenge of your life.Reach out to your goals.There is no limit to what you can achieve.

Corporate rule number 7; survival of the fittest spoon. Those who follow reach nowhere.

I think of the New Testament story of the woman with an issue of blood--specifically of her hand reaching out into the clutter and chaos of a crowd, not sure that she would reach Christ, but nevertheless reaching for him in hope. Her story is sacred to me because she truly believed that by reaching outside of the bounds that her culture had set for her--perhaps even the bounds she had set for herself--she could be made whole.