Quotes About Aspiration

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Knowing what we are called to is important, but so is desiring it with all our heart.

The untold want by life and land ne'er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find. —WALT WHITMAN

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.

Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

People don't demand a say in how they're governed because they want to be rich. They demand it when they already are rich and crave something more.

But Delhi is a place where people generally assume – far more, say, than in Bangalore or Mumbai – that the world is programmed to deny them everything

If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.

I want to tell him that when we were in the camps waiting for a boat we spoke about what we imagined Australia would be like. Kangaroos, koalas, wide open spaces. Then, when we arrived, we were locked up and the images we had shrank smaller and smaller until Australia became tiny patches of sky beyond the barbed wire.

HAVING ONE'S OWN shop, working on projects of one's own choosing, making enough money today so one could do the same tomorrow: These were the modest goals of Thomas Edison when he struck out on his own as full-time inventor and manufacturer. The grand goal was nothing other than enjoying the autonomy of entrepreneur and forestalling a return to the servitude of employee.

Old Demonology: '... And so forth. Not that success, for him, is sure, infallible But never has he been afraid to reach. His lesions are legion. But reaching is his rule.' - Gwendolyn Brooks

Please don't take my wings...

Give yourself permission to dream. Fuel your kids' dreams too. Once in a while, that might even mean letting them stay up past their bedtimes.

If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can't do today.

there should be some lessons learned and how you can use the stuff you hear today to achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older, you may find that "enabling the dreams of others" thing is even more fun.

It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.