reach for the stars

Verb

Meaning

reach for the stars (third-person singular simple present reaches for the stars, present participle reaching for the stars, simple past and past participle reached for the stars)

To have high hopes; to be ambitious.
Coordinate terms: reach for the sky, reach for the moon, shoot for the moon, aim for the sky, aim for the stars

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Related terms

reach for the sky promise the stars

Examples

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one,but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. Leo Burnett

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

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only a human can reach for the stars or even know what that means. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable. Cathy Freeman

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny. Bill Frist

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars. Ivan Turgenev

Close letter words and terms

reach for reach for the moon reach for the sky reach into reach its height reach majority