Quotes About Aspiration

And the higher he lifts his thoughts, the extra manly, upright, and righteous he turns into, the greater can be his success, the more blessed and enduring could be his achievements.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration:

Dwell in thought upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see ; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

You will rise as high as your greatest aspiration, or fall as low as your

On the wings of aspiration man rises from earth to heaven, from ignorance to knowledge, from the under darkness to the upper light. Without it he remains a grovelling animal, earthly, sensual, unenlightened, and uninspired. Aspiration is the longing for heavenly things.

The key to an enriched life is to have a burning desire. Wayne

In that Facebook movie (you know, the Justin Timberlake vehicle), JT says, "A million's not cool. A BILLION is cool." Well, actually JT, very often a million is pretty cool.

Is this just a dream? Can life be lived so large? Have I been able to live life so large? To live to my fullest potential?

But deep inside you there is a creative force that desperately wants you to succeed, wants you to make a lot of money, wants you to fall in love and be happy, wants you to do these things not so you can live in exotic mansions and travel the world fifty times over, but so that you are free from the constraints of a normal job and can pursue the real exploration of what and where is the happiness around you.

The impossible is the least that one can demand.

Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.

What a great difference there is,' she said, 'between dreaming of something and dealing with it!

How can one... dream of power in any other terms than in the symbols of power?

People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior

I mean, I think you've got to be truthful about the life you have. Otherwise, there's no possibility of achieving the life you want.

And yet power is real, and many things, including, very often, love, cannot be achieved without it.

How can one, however, dream of power in any other terms than in the symbols of power?

The moral of the story (and the hope of the world) lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

The intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

And she began rather to envy the stocky girl with the crush on Frank Sinatra, since she would settle one day, obviously, for a great deal less, and probably turn out children as Detroit turned out cars and never sigh for an instant for what she had missed, having indeed never, and especially with a lifetime of moviegoing behind her, missed anything.

Je n'étais pas boxeur, je n'étais pas beau, je n'étais pas chanteur, je n'étais pas danseur j'étais drôlement coincé la seul chose que j'ai pensé est que peut-être je pouvais être écrivain

I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.