Quotes About Aspiration

My flag is raised high today. For others to see, sure. But more so to find which way my wind is blowing. Almost time to chart a course.

Life is getting what you want, and I'm better at life than you are.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Remember me as I tried to be, not as I was." ~Urza, The Brother's War

Deeper in their hearts, they were debating what kind of man they wanted their son to be.

Where they lived, being known by this label [uppity] meant that you thought you were better than everyone else around you. That you deserved more, and that given the opportunity, you would leave this place behind without a second thought. There was shame in thinking like that.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. — Benjamin Disraeli

Choose words that will point you in the direction of your goals.

After the presentations, we had to fill out these questionnaires. The first question was, 'Where do you see yourself in fifteen years?' I know EXACTLY where I will be in fifteen years: in my pool, at my mansion, counting my money. But there weren't any check boxes for THAT option.

I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish.

You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be, or settling for what you are.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant aspiration

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

Write your dreams down; make them vivid and specific; give them a concrete timeline for realization;

We are all either building our own dreams or building somebody else's. To put a sharper point on it, we're either building our own dreams - or building our nightmares.

the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." —Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

College? Who needed college. Kobe Bryant had decided to take his talents to the NBA.

When I see a good singer, I get teary-eyed. Part of it is jealousy because all comedians are frustrated rock stars. That's a fact.

You can't quit because there's a Beyoncé in the world. You can't quit because you went to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and realized that everyone on stage knows more about music than you ever will.

We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.

For all its emphasis on sexual and romantic experience, Girls never suggests that a smoothly pleasant sex life is something worthy of serious aspiration. The ultimate prize to be wrung from all of these baffling sexual predicaments is a deeper understanding of oneself.

Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

A crowd exists so long as it has an unattained goal.