Quotes About Aspiration

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Life is too short to be small.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

It (destiny) is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.

Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. . . .

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.

Dreams are necessary to life.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.