Quotes About Aspiration

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

Everyone expects to go further than his father went; everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough, and the old applause.

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.

Now landsmen all, whoever you may be, If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool, Be careful to be guided by this golden rule - Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea, And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mold a pin, or fabricate a nail!

You have to set new goals every day.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.

None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.

We all envy other people's luck.

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.