Quotes About Aspiration

I believed that I would become a counsellor to the Thembu king,

To overthrow oppression has been sanctioned by humanity and is the highest aspiration

A dreamer is a winner who never gives up

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation.

La educación es el gran motor del desarrollo personal. Sólo a través de ella la hija de un campesino puede convertirse en médico, el hijo de un minero puede llegar a ser director de la mina, o el de un granjero puede llegar a ser presidente de una gran nación.

Bildung ist der Motor persönlicher Entwicklung. Durch Bildung wird aus der Tochter eines Bauers einen Ärztin, aus dem Sohn eines Mienenarbeiters deren Leiter, aus dem Kind eines Landarbeiter Präsident einer marken Nation. Was wir aus dem machen was uns mitgegeben wird, unterscheidet letztendlich erst einen Menschen vom anderen.

Every year for New Years I write down all of my goals and dreams and put them in my Bible. At the end of the year I go and pull the paper out and check this off and check that off.

I hope to stay on 'Glee ' I hope to still be a 'Housewife' and I hope to do 'The New Normal.' I just want to do it all! Why not? I'm only going to be young for a little while longer.

A lot of people went through life feeling they'd been ripped off. The money, the good jobs, the beautiful women, the rich husbands, had been snatched away from them, given to the wrong people.

There is nothing wrong with our desire to transcend our present state. There would be no progress in this world were it not for man's dissatisfaction with himself. It is natural for us to seek a more beautiful personal life; it is right that we wish for greater understanding, greater health, greater security.

Concentrate your attention entirely upon the thing desired."   Oddly

This very day start your new life. Approach every experience in a new frame of mind — with a new state of consciousness. Assume the noblest and the best for yourself in every respect and continue therein.

Stop asking yourself whether or not you are worthy or unworthy to claim yourself to be that which you desire to be. You will be condemned by the world only as long as you condemn yourself.

The fact that it does not feel natural to you to be what you imagine yourself to be is the secret of your failure.

If you don't have specific goals written down for your life, you are mentally malnourished. Your mind was designed to be fed with goals just as your body was designed to be fed with food and water.

Successful men and women train their minds to think only about what they want to happen in their lives.

High achievers are motivated by pleasurable outcomes. Underachievers are motivated by pleasurable methods.

When you choose to write down compelling goals, you are simultaneously choosing a compelling future. Exciting goals foreshadow an exciting future.

Governor Romney may be running for CEO, I'm running for President

Transcendence is the business of poets. That's what they're for. They're not like you and me. They have that extra bit that's always ready for take-off. Poets understand why God didn't give us wings: he wanted entertainment. He wanted us to aspire, to ascend. He wanted poetry. My

He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that he himself could dream of achieving that any thought of writing instantly evaporated into the certainty of failure.

George Eliot: "It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.