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Within life's vast theme, dream big, let your goals gleam. Chase your extreme aspirations, and in the journey, build self-esteem. What may seem like a lofty scheme, can be the path to a reality beyond your wildest dream. – Covenant Akinlotan	added by covenantay 3 months ago
I think the stock market is still the place to be, even though valuations are lofty, the fundamentals are good, most companies are having excellent quarters and the outlook is pretty good. – Peter Tuz	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Things must change at White House when there are larger external forces acting on White House, it's a lofty ideal, the people's house, and we have to ground it in some reality. – Matthew Costello	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thing of starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and time to fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity. Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyalty and divine friendship. Agape. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.” ― Richard Paul Evans – Richard Paul Evans	added by BIG_potato_games 4 years ago
Coming into this event, we knew that the bar that we all collectively set was very high, it's extremely gratifying the numbers exceeding even our lofty goals. – David Neal	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There is a steep and lofty wall, Where my warders trembling stand, He who at speed shall ride round its height, For him shall be my hand. – Letitia Elizabeth Landon	added by Madeleine Quinn 8 years ago
We are going to scale extremely quickly. We have lofty goals for North America. – Jeff Matheson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a lofty goal to be the primary bank for every one of their wealth management clients. – Glenn Schorr	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We need a strong earnings momentum to justify the current lofty valuations and push share prices further higher, but that's not happening, i don't see a lasting positive impulse coming from the reporting season and see only a marginal increase in equities in the remaining weeks of the year. – Christian Stocker	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
These were lofty goals, but things have changed a bit and we've got to take that into consideration, we're probably going to have to extend the deadline. – Doug Goehring	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Ronald Reagan deserves this lofty platform Ronald Reagan is on, where people want to refer to Ronald Reagan, they want to compare themselves to Ronald Reagan. I think that is all positive, at this moment, we need a conservative who speaks not in pale pastels but bold colors. – Matt Schlapp	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. – Emma Goldman	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy. – Charles Dickens	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. – Leonardo da Vinci	added by anonymous 11 years ago
He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit, and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for another. But virtue without guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises with greater vigour when it is oppressed. – Metastasio	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Consider your childhood, a construction building process, on a very, very steep ground. You need to stop consistantly and re-do your measures. So that your pillars shall exceptionally remain lofty till your life extincts.. – The wise Pharoah Moe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. – Christopher Dawson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Speak of things public to the public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the parrot. – Johannes Trithemius, 1488	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We know not of the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour stricks that calls to noble action..., No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought. – Joshua L. Chamberlain, General Commander 20th Maine, Union Forces,	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare – Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown! – William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 1	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Dream lofty dreams, as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you one day shall be: your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. – James Allen	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. – Thornton	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Within life's vast theme, dream big, let your goals gleam. Chase your extreme aspirations, and in the journey, build self-esteem. What may seem like a lofty scheme, can be the path to a reality beyond your wildest dream.

– Covenant Akinlotan

added by covenantay
3 months ago

I think the stock market is still the place to be, even though valuations are lofty, the fundamentals are good, most companies are having excellent quarters and the outlook is pretty good.

– Peter Tuz

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Things must change at White House when there are larger external forces acting on White House, it's a lofty ideal, the people's house, and we have to ground it in some reality.

– Matthew Costello

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thing of starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and time to fully bloom, and, as such, seen best not in its callow youth but in its wrinkled maturity. Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion–one of loyalty and divine friendship. Agape. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time–while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.” ― Richard Paul Evans

– Richard Paul Evans

added by BIG_potato_games
4 years ago

Coming into this event, we knew that the bar that we all collectively set was very high, it's extremely gratifying the numbers exceeding even our lofty goals.

– David Neal

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There is a steep and lofty wall, Where my warders trembling stand, He who at speed shall ride round its height, For him shall be my hand.

– Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
8 years ago

We are going to scale extremely quickly. We have lofty goals for North America.

– Jeff Matheson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a lofty goal to be the primary bank for every one of their wealth management clients.

– Glenn Schorr

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We need a strong earnings momentum to justify the current lofty valuations and push share prices further higher, but that's not happening, i don't see a lasting positive impulse coming from the reporting season and see only a marginal increase in equities in the remaining weeks of the year.

– Christian Stocker

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

These were lofty goals, but things have changed a bit and we've got to take that into consideration, we're probably going to have to extend the deadline.

– Doug Goehring

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Ronald Reagan deserves this lofty platform Ronald Reagan is on, where people want to refer to Ronald Reagan, they want to compare themselves to Ronald Reagan. I think that is all positive, at this moment, we need a conservative who speaks not in pale pastels but bold colors.

– Matt Schlapp

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

– Emma Goldman

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

– Charles Dickens

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

– Leonardo da Vinci

added by anonymous
11 years ago

He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit, and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for another. But virtue without guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises with greater vigour when it is oppressed.

– Metastasio