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Quotes About Aspirations

Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.
~ Epictetus
I was always a dreamer with high aspirations, but I kept coming up short my whole life.
~ Steve Harvey
Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream - of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete - lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs.
~ Glenn Kurtz
You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
~ Taylor Swift
Now everybody has some secret goals in life.
~ Robert Fulghum
Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.
~ Tim Lebbon
I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.
~ Will Self
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.
~ Anna Brownell Jameson
Mama said, "Dreams are different to real life but important too."
~ Audrey Niffenegger
I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.
~ Ayana Mathis
There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.
~ Barack Obama
Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
~ Bear Grylls
I ask you, what do I have to hide? The fact that I'm not half the man I wanted to be? The fact that these little pieces of wisdom I string together add up to not much at all?
~ Edward Whittemore
One can buy everything in its life; however, one cannot buy dreams and love that one carries in heartbeats.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Kalau orang muda tidak dapat menggantungkan cita-cita besar dalam jiwanya, siapa lagi yang dapat?
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
The more I see of the world the more I realize how much we are haunted by our childhood dreams.
~ Elaine Dundy
You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can." "That's
~ Elena Ferrante
Hábleles de tú a las estrellas.
~ Elena Poniatowska
We hear our legislators proclaim unceasingly their respect for the individual conscience, though it be a religious conscience, and themselves anticlericals. All the same, all their efforts tend to, dissociate us, and to reduce us to the state of amorphous dust. They can bear no organised society other than what they call a lay society no government other than their government and no social finality other than their temporal aspirations.
~ Antonin Sertillanges
A cambio de un futuro siempre incierto, no hacemos cola para recibir la ración mensual de arroz, mantequilla o vivienda establecida por algún autócrata, sino que cada uno se lanza a realizar personales aspiraciones, tejiendo una malla de servicios que eleva hasta extremos antes impensables el nivel y la expectativa de vida para individuos y grupos.
~ Antonio Escohotado
Maybe I was naïve and undeveloped, even delayed, but if growing up meant the death of dreams, I chose immaturity
~ Antwone Quenton Fisher
The females are like the emails in a male's online account, their tendency to barge in his life increases as the currency note bulges in his bank account.
~ Anuj Somany
There is nothing a person can do of his/her own because even what everyone dreams or desires is also decided by their respective destiny.
~ Anuj Somany
America was promises…It was Man who had been promised.
~ Archibald MacLeish