Quotes About Aspiration

If you don't have a consistent goal in life, you can't live it in a consistent way.

It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so.

The Stoics aspired to the repression of all emotion, and the Epicureans to freedom from all disturbance; yet in the upshot the one has become a synonym of stubborn endurance, the other for unbridled licence.

Whatsoever thou doest hereafter aspire unto, thou mayest even now enjoy and possess, if thou doest not envy thyself thine own happiness.

Do not imagine that, if something is hard for you to achieve, it is therefore impossible for any man; but rather consider anything that is humanly possible and appropriate to lie within your own reach too.

Foolish are those who…have no aim to which they can direct every impulse and, indeed, every thought.

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

second, that everyone, regardless of who they are, will want to be promoted out of the job as soon as possible.

During Gallup's interviews with great managers, we found a consistent willingness to hire employees who, the managers knew, might soon earn significantly more than they did.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

expectation isn't the same as desire

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

I don't want her to be like me. Give in, go along, save her skin. That is what it comes down to. I want gallantry from her, swashbuckling, heroism, single-handed combat. Something I lack.

China does not exist. Nevertheless, she longs to be there.

on the Street of Dreams it was dream eat dream.

I wish this story were different. I wish it were more civilized. I wish it showed me in a better light, if not happier, then at least more active, less hesitant, less distracted by trivia. I wish it had more shape. I wish it were about love, or about sudden realizations important to one's life, or even about sunsets, birds, rainstorms, or snow.

Dream steals from its lair towards its prey.

It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.

I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.

What mankind can dream research and technology can achieve

As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

Every kid coming out of Harvard, every kid coming out of school now thinks he can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and with these new technologies like cloud computing, he actually has a shot.