Quotes About Aspiration

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance. Never, in the history of America has there been so great an opportunity for practical dreamers as now exists. The

Back of all achievement, back of all self-control, back of all thought control, is that magic something called desire! It is no misstatement of fact to say that you are limited only by the depth of your desires!

accumulation of money cannot be left to chance, good fortune and luck. One must realise that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring and planning before they acquired money.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie Which we ascribe to heaven; the fated sky Gives us free scope; and only backward pulls Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull. How much I could do if I only tried. * (1803-1873) English dramatist, novelist, and politician.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

Any person who is educated is one who is able to get what he wants in life without violating the rights of others.

The little ragged newsboy on the street stands, with wide-open mouth, and envies the business man as he alights from his automobile at the curb and starts into his office. "How happy I would be," the newsboy says to himself, "if I owned a Lizzie." And, the business man seated at his desk inside, thinks how happy he would be if he could add another million dollars to his already overswollen bank roll.

definite chief aim.

all these considerations disappear because you have your mind on much bigger and better things.

I have gotten closer to my dream life thanks

one needs a decent university "name" to get ahead in life;

I can't help what I dream.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

I'm going to be a star some day, she announced as though daring him to contradict her. I'm sure you... It's my life. It's the only thing in the whole world that I want. It's good to know what you want. I used to be a bookkeeper in a hotel, but... If I'm not, I'll commit suicide.

Most of us are capable of more than we believe.

Our motive is not to prove our worth, but to live our possibilities

This earth is the distant star we must find a way to reach.

My happiness and self-realization are noble purposes.

the holiest among us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.

ambition is a talisman more powerful than witchcraft.

In the end, both sides wanted what the Pilgrims had been looking for in 1620: a place unfettered by obligations to others.

On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.

I long for the luxury of being impractical.