Quotes About Aspiration

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Live the life you've dreamed.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Let us consider the nature of true greatness in men. The people who can catch hold of men's minds and feelings and inspire them to do things bigger than themselves are the people who are remembered in history. . . . those who stir feelings and imagination and make men struggle toward perfection.

Everybody wants to be someplace he ain't.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

Richard Dyer (1985) tells us that entertainment embodies "what utopia would feel like rather than how it would be organised.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

The thing which sets off the American from all other men, and gives peculiar color not only to the pattern of his daily life but also adds to the play of his inner ideas, is what, for want of a more exact term, may be called social aspiration

The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth.

I don't ask for much. I should ask for a lot, then maybe I might get some.

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

I cannot reach it, and my striving eyeDazzles at it, as at eternity.

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.

A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.

A banner with the strange device,Excelsior!

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.