Quotes About Aspiration

Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.

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

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,' Thoreau had said. 'Live the life you've imagined.

She didn't need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential.

wanting is also lacking. That is what "want" means.

Sometimes,' she said, as her eyes shone wide and bright, 'people look up to people not for who they have been, but for what they could become. For what they know they could be. They see in you something special.

Dream big . . . You can be anything you want to be. Because in one life, you are.

Ga vol vertrouwen je dromen achterna,' had Thoreau gezegd. 'Leef het leven dat je je hebt voorgenomen.

She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.

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.

Much of what is sold to us is the idea that we could be better than who we are if we tried to become something else.

She didn't need a vineyard or a Californian sunset to be happy. She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.

The hardest dream of all to achieve is the dream of not being tormented by our unlived dreams. To cope with and accept unfulfillment as a natural human condition

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,' Thoreau had said. 'Live the life you've imagined.' Thoreau had been her favourite philosopher to study. But who seriously goes confidently in the direction of their dreams? Well, apart from Thoreau.

It's never too late to pursue a dream.

Nora was only able to think of herself in terms of the things she wasn't. The things she hadn't been able to become. And there really were quite a lot of things she hadn't become. The regrets which were on permanent repeat in her mind.

It's never too late to pursue a dream

She didn't even need a large house and the perfect family. She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before.

you should remember that a pawn is the most magical piece of all. It might look small and ordinary but it isn't. Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.

Reading is added to that great pile of things—work, love, sexual prowess, the words they didn't say when they really needed to say them—that they are bound to feel a bit dissatisfied about.

If one advances confidently," Thoreau had written in Walden, "in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." He'd also observed that part of this success was the product of being alone. "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

live any life we want. Any life. Dream big . . . You can be anything you want to be. Because in one life, you are.

But who seriously goes confidently in the direction of their dreams..??

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,' Thoreau