Quotes About Aspiration

Sometimes reality is better than dreams

She always wanted to believe in things.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Even when you're at the top, there's always something higher,

As long as you're going to think anyway, think big. —Donald Trump

A goal is a dream with a deadline." That marvelous definition drives home a very important point. Before you start writing down your goals, you'd better know what your dream is. Otherwise, you might find yourself headed for a destination you never wanted to get to in the first place.

Todos fracasamos alguna vez. No se trata de elegir entre el fracaso y el éxito; sino de escoger el riesgo y aspirar a la grandeza, o no tomar ningún riesgo y asegurarnos la mediocridad.

Coming up with goals, updating them, and monitoring our progress in achieving them is less important, I believe, than the process of emotionally deciding what it is you want to do.

He was getting to be a certain age, he thought. It was the age when his never-to-be-written masterpieces had begun to outweigh the masterpieces he was still going to write.

To be poor in New York was humiliating, a little; but to be young—to be young was divine.

I don't really know exactly what I want to be, but I know what I don't want to be.

Look here, sir, what is it you really want out of life? Urb? Snorthwinger? Oplozzies? There must be some chink in your implacability!

Dude, you are not equating being on that lame-ass Star Search wannabe show with hosting American Bandstand, are you?

In 1969 Billy Casper was going into a job he didn't want. Today he'd be lucky to get a part-time casual job in a far more hostile world. Maybe we should ask what went wrong.

The plan is to marry a doctor, It's either that or become a trolley-dolly and hit on a pilot.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

As Joseph Campbell says, if you move in the direction of your passions, opportunities tend to appear that you couldn't have imagined and that weren't otherwise there.

All students are unique individuals with their own hopes, talents, anxieties, fears, passions, and aspirations. Engaging them as individuals is the heart of raising achievement. As

For most of us the problem isn't that we aim too high and fail - it's just the opposite - we aim too low and succeed.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

But no matter how far he flew, he didn't get any closer to the sun.

With my book in one hand And my drink in the other What more could I want But fame, Better health, And ten million dollars?

If you have a dream, you have a responsibility to yourself and to us to make it come true. That's the most important thing in your life. Don't let anything stand in its way.

Mr. Cruse, how high would you like to fly?" A smile soared across my face. "As high as I possibly can.