Quotes About Aspiration

I place no limits and no restrictions on all that I intend to accomplish and become from here on in.

Thoreau's that indicates if you follow your dreams, "You will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

the nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

everyone has a calling to be inspired.

Refuse to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you're capable of creating. 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.

I've never thought about Who I want to be. The question has always been What do you want to be?

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.

I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven. The great aim of modern life has been to improve the future—or even just to reach the future, assuming that the future will inevitably be "better.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

The Kansas state motto, "Ad astra per aspera" - To the stars through difficulties.

Garden City: Dreams in a Kansas Town

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

When all the world is young, lad,And all the trees are green;And every goose a swan, lad,And every lass a queen;Then hey for boot and horse, lad,And round the world away:Young blood must have its course, lad,And every dog his day.

individuals, he believed, should choose and pursue what matters to them.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Contented with little yet wishing for more

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.

I think I'll go over and introduce myself to that little red-haired girl. I think I'll introduce myself, and then ask her to come over and sit next to me. I think I'll ask her to sit next to me here, and then I think I'll tell her how much I've always admired her... I think I'll flap my arms, and fly to the moon.

Every fool aspired to be a knave.

The mountain between us is the one mountain I cannot climb.

En présence de la Beauté l'amour se dilate et s'épanouit, il s'ouvre, il se répand, cela est dit avec une crudité medicale. Ainsi la Beauté seule appelle a la vie. L'amour aspire à fleurir, à fructifier, à produire dans la Beauté, pour y vaincre la mort, afin de s'y survivre!

It seems to have been meeting Methodist missionaries from India that inspired Margaret with her ambition, curious in someone little more than a child, to join the Indian Civil Service After listening to them, she remembered, 'I wanted to be an Indian civil servant, because I thought that India was a remarkable place and I would love to be a part, a cog in the wheel, of this great empire. (page 6)

What never changes is your desire to change