Quotes About Aspiration

Black men of our day were never told , the skies the limit. Our limits were more like the inner lid of a coffin.

dreams are like oceans, Mr. McGill. If they're worth a damn they're bigger than the dreamer, and sometimes, when the one dreaming wants to be as big as what they imagine, the wave pulls'em down.

she felt in her mind the consciousness that she was entitled to hold a higher rank from her merit, than the arbitrary despotism of religious prejudice permitted her to aspire to.

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be.

Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about

To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

Look for a job you would take if you didn't need a job.

It helps to have dreams if you pursue them in reality.

We must dream, but not only dream.

I have absolutley no limits on what I intent to create.

By believing passionately in something that does not yet exist we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I always entertain great hopes. —Robert Frost

This is all wrapped up in a quote that I have cited many times, which was written back in the 19th century by one of the most influential spiritual masters ever to grace my path. His name is Henry David Thoreau, and his words have always rung sharply in my consciousness: "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. — Rumi

Mark Twain: "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

be creative, and above all to fulfill their highest needs and to feel a sense of purpose. These qualities would make

As Michelangelo suggested, the greater danger is not that your hopes are too high and you fail to reach them; it's that they're too low and you do. Have within you an imaginary candle flame that burns brightly regardless of what goes before you. Let this inner flame represent for you the idea that you're capable of manifesting miracles in your life. In

make a commitment to work toward your greatness.

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

A higher concept of yourself involves taking on new truths and shedding your old views of what you can achieve. This is the only way you can achieve your desires.

An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.