Quotes About Aspiration

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.

The future is hope!

The future is a great land.

No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

In America, any boy may become president, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too."

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

Our visions begin with our desires.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

It may be that those who do most, dream most.

It's our dreams that keep us going, that separate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.

It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars, to sail to an uncharted land, to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar.

I wish I knew the good of wishing.

As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.