"Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor."
— Bill Shankly

January 1, 1970

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Attributed to Shankly in 2013 thirty years after Shankly's death. However, very similar sayings are found anonymously from the late twentieth-century. [https://books.google.com/books?id=tnpYzxOSsDoC&pg=PT120&dq=%22Aim+for+the+sky%22+ceiling&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAGoVChMIoszvpuGkyAIVyD6ICh0pVwwm#v=onepage&q=%22Aim%20for%20the%20sky%22%20ceiling&f=false Harrington and Kavanagh, Prayer for Parish Groups: Preparing and Leading Prayer for Group Meetings, p. 32, 1998