Quotes About Aspirations

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

The mature nation, like the mature man, is one which has made a workable accommodation between its aspirations and its limitations.

Dreams are powerful reflections of your actual growth potential. -Denis Waitley and Reni L Witt

Once again we are faced with a choice of "all or nothing." If we make use of technique, we must accept the specificity and autonomy of its ends, and the totality of its rules. Our own desires and aspirations can change nothing.

The visions you glorify in your mind, The ideals you enthrone in your heart.. This you will build your life by... This you will become.

Si quieren ser albañiles, decidles que arquitectos, y si arquitectos que ministros de la vivienda. No permitáis nunca que se cumpla el afán, no pongáis los sueños al alcance de los niños para que nunca sean tan miserables como vosotros...

To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.

Jealousy, in spite of the mad frenzy of its most splendid displays, is a vice of weakness; it arises from a mind whose aspirations and desires are inferior to its accomplishments; it is the child of baulked vanity and failure of courage.

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

Your relationship with money can be a place where you bring your strengths and skills, your highest aspirations, and your deepest and most profound qualities. Whether we are millionaires or "dollar heirs," we can actually be great with our money and be great in our relationship with it.

The right brain is future oriented. It's where our aspirations, our dreams, our longings reside. It's where creativity is born. This is the part of your brain that doesn't care that you haven't done it before—in fact it's energized by newness and bored by routine.

Both Fascism and Communism had utopian aspirations and both took hold amid the intellectual and social ferment of the late nineteenth century. Each purported to deliver a level of emotional sustenance that liberal political systems lacked.

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.

Percy had never owned a ball or a glove or a bat, had never played catch with his dad, had never dreamed of beating the Yankee. In fact he'd probably never dreamed of leaving the cotton patch. That thought was almost overwhelming.

The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places.

All human beings face the same fundamental problems of loving and of suffering, of striving toward human aspirations for themselves and their children, of simply being and inevitably dying. These are the basic truths in all people, the common denominators of all cultures and all races and all ethnic categories. In

lies in the possibility that the Founders left the Union to test itself: knowing the need to proportion aspirations to capabilities, recognizing the incompatibilities in good things, they chose to save their new state, and leave to their descendants the saving of its soul.

I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.

The most humble of ambitions have been the small beginnings of greatness.

Those who are not Free, can't even climb a Tree .... Forget about them being what they want to Be!

When you were a child, you dreamed of adventure, travel, and success. As an adult, a lot of the time, you just hope the toilet flushes. . .

To live life in the true sense is to be committed to your quests and aspirations.