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Quotes About Aspiration

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.
~ Jay McInerney
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
~ Aristotle
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
~ Chin-Ning Chu
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Maybe I'll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.
~ Marilyn Monroe
If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
~ Lou Holtz
Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
~ Gene Simmons
I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didnt have to be a gigolo. In real life.
~ Cesar Romero
How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
~ Jim Valvano
To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.
~ Alvin Ailey
It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
~ Benjamin E. Mays
My main ambition in life is to be on the Devil's most wanted list.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
~ Marcel Proust
Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
~ Amy Winehouse
I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.
~ Mark Wahlberg
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
~ Christopher Morley
If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.
~ Tony Robbins
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
~ Denis Waitley
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
~ Diane Sawyer
Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.
~ Jeffery Deaver
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?
~ Jeffrey Archer
Donald Hall asked Henry Moore] 'what is the secret of life?' [Moore answered] 'The secret is to devote your whole life to one ambition. Concentrate everything you know, everything you can summon, to accomplish this one desire. But remember: Choose something you can't do.
~ Jeffrey Berman
Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
You don't inspire people by telling them they're wrong. You need to show them something extraordinary so they long to be part of it.
~ Jeffrey Overstreet