Quotes About Aspiration

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

If there is one true statement true of every living person it must be this: he hasn't achieved his full potential.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

By heaven methinks it were an easy leapTo pluck bright honor from the pale-fac'd moon,Or dive into the bottom of the deep,Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,And pluck up drowned honor by the locks.

O! when degree is shaked,Which is the ladder to all high designs,The enterprise is sick.

He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.

He was a manOf an unbounded stomach.

And to be kingStands not within the prospect of belief.

It were all oneThat I should love a bright particular starAnd think to wed it, he is so above me.

O! for a horse with wings!

They threw their capsAs they would hang them on the horns o' the moon,Shouting their emulation.

Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is.

Hills whose heads touch heaven.

Like one that stands upon a promontory,And spies a far-off shore where he would tread,Wishing his foot were equal with his eye.

Cloud-kissing Ilion.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination.

Success should always be just beyond your grasp.

know that the people who live the longest and the richest lives are looking ahead and not behind.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.