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Quotes About Aspiration

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent
~ Robert De Niro
Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.
~ Oprah Winfrey
We can't tell our life from our wish
~ Randall Jarrell
It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.
~ Robert Breault
To have and to want more that is life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
~ Hermann Hesse
We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.
~ Judith Wright
If you're really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you're going to get it.
~ Robert Greene
Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.
~ Snoop Dogg
You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else.
~ Tama J. Kieves
See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.
~ Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.
~ Ronald Reagan
What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
~ Alfred de Vigny
I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.
~ Ansel Elgort
The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.
~ Audra McDonald
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
~ Samuel Johnson
Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.
~ Sean Plott
The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.
~ Tom Peters
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
~ Joshua Lederberg