It’s always encouraging to hear advice to “reach for the stars.” But if you don’t understand what the phrase implies, you can be perplexed. Although you might believe that people are advising you to pursue an astronaut career, this is not the case at all! To “reach for the stars” is to have high expectations for yourself or to continually raise your bar in order to succeed in life and overcome challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Aeneid, a poem by Virgil, is credited as the source of the expression “Reach for the stars”. Written sometime between 29 and 19 BC in Latin. Virgil uses the Latin term “sic atur ad astra,” which translates to “one’s journey to the stars,” several times in the poem. He often employs the expression “desire to do the difficult-to-reach stars,” or “opta ardua pennis astra sequi.” The term and definition above were made by combining these two sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Given below are a few examples of the idiom:<\/p>\n\n\n\n