Quotes About Aspiration

Man aspires to greatness, but all too often his hopes are submerged by the primitive instinct to survive at any cost.

The sleek, expensive girls I teach,Younger and pinker every year,Bloom gradually out of reach.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

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You afoot, the old man said. I knowed your walk the minute I seen you. You always walked like you had the world in your hip pocket. You ain't though, have you? Last time I seen you you was in a fine car. You had big plans.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

I want to rise so high that when I shit I won't miss anybody.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

It should seem as if there were a few green sunny spots in the desert of life, to which we are always hastening forward: we eye them wistfully in the distance, and care not what perils or suffering we endure, so that we arrive at them at last.

It was only one of a dozen or twenty vocations which he had taken up at various times, only to drop them again as soon as he made the discovery that they one and all entailed months and even years of hard work if he was ever to fulfil his ambitious desire of doing and being something great in the world.

human phenomenon: our species' preference for "positively skewed outcomes"—ones with low-probability but enormous payoffs, even if the average of all payoffs is negative.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.