If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
Mike Tyson

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Josh Billings

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
John Dewey

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
J. Paul Getty

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.
Eric Hoffer

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Germaine Greer

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.
Marc Jacobs

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning

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.
Tennessee Williams

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.
Dick Gregory

I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.
Princess Diana

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
Fran Lebowitz

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Fran Lebowitz