Quotes About Aspiration

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting!

To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key, and puts us at our best.

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.

The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.

What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.