Quotes About Aspiration

A state between the mind and the body, something intermediate half-way from the newspaper to a nap—this is what we may call the middle-life theory of the influential English gentleman—the true aspiration of the ruler of the world.

I cannot be content with less than Heaven.

My years have limped; but I Have tried so hard to fly! And now, suppose Death brings Gulls' wings At last, for me to keep?

When you have a child, you get a surge of ambition, or a surge of hormonal urgency, to get something done, something worthy of your new station in life.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

I think you've got to be truthful about the life you have. Otherwise, there's no possibility of achieving the life you want.

Bigger dreams of some black man who will weld all blacks together into a mighty fist.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Our dreams need time and physical means and painstaking thought before they can be realized.

Yes, Prayer--the aspiration of the soul freed absolutely from the body--bears all forces within it, and applies them to the constant and perseverant union of the Visible and the Invisible. When you possess the faculty of praying without weariness, with love, with force, with certainty, with intelligence, your spiritualized nature will presently be invested with power. Like a rushing wind, like a thunderbolt, it cuts its way through all things and shares the power of God.

Ambitious men ought to follow curved lines, the shortest road in politics.

There are men so situated in life that they can never enter the brilliant sphere in which honest women move, whether for want of a coat, or from their bashfulness, or from the failure of a mahout to introduce them.

Well, gold contains all things in embryo; gold realizes all things for us.

want to be overwhelmed, too, while I'm still not too old. I want to be blown away by greatness. Because I've started wanting to become a better person, now, even just a little bit better.

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

And it seems to me when people quit dreaming, sleeping and awake, when they can't even imagine wonderful and terrible things happening, then they're not going to make things happen. They're not really people anymore. They're just sort of like pets.

Apparently a girl could get just as far with a blindfold and a dream.

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president' s spouse. I wish him well

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

When I grow up, I too will go to faraway places, and when I grow old, I too will live beside the sea.

You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.