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Quotes About Aspiration

If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else.
~ Spanish proverb
All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
~ Aristotle
There is no such thing as expecting too much.
~ Susan Cheever
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
~ Anita DeFrantz
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.
~ Louisa May Alcott
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fall immediately, they had better aim at something high.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Someday, someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.
~ Barbara Bush
I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
~ Jacqueline Cochran
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
~ Wilma Pearl Mankiller
[My father] said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.
~ Maria Goeppert Mayer
What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? We need to believe in something. What would really drive us crazy is to believe this reality we run into every day is all there is. If I don't believe that there's a happy ending out there-that will-you-marry-me in the sky-I can't keep working today.
~ Jill Robinson
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!
~ Bessie Coleman
I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.
~ Marie Bashkirtseff
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
~ Edward Young
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.
~ Madonna
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.
~ C. S. Lewis
I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president.
~ Barbara Mikulski
One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low.
~ Thomas Fuller
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.
~ Les Brown
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
~ James Russell Lowell
Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
~ Robert Browning