Quotes About Aspiration

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming, and what one has in fact become.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.

A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.

If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.