Hitch your wagon to a star

1. Aim high; hope for great things. This advice appears in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Example Sentences

It was an American who bade you hitch your wagon to a star, and you have only to reflect in order to recall the spiritual vigor, the righteous force of will, the strength of aspiring mind, the patriotic courage, the tireless soul-struggle of the early generations of choicely educated, simply nurtured Americans.

From Project Gutenberg

To succeed you must, as Emerson expresses it, “hitch your wagon to a star.”

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Which tells you that if you can hitch your wagon to a star, big-bet funds are worth it.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the A.L.A. we have heard the word “Utopian,” or its equivalent, on more than one occasion met by the motto, “Hitch your wagon to a star”; and we have seen the impracticable an accomplished fact.

From Project Gutenberg

Hitch your wagon to a star—yes.

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