Quotes About Aspiration

now his not-so-secret ambition was to be chairman of the Fed after my departure.

Hank would be free to pursue his passions

I set my sights on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose PhD program in economics was widely viewed as the best in the world.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals....

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this; decide what you want.

The first step to getting the tings you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

The indispensable first step to getting things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

When you run a marathon, you mean it. We're built for running. We dream of flying. For now, though, we're built to run.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Life is too short to be little.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

The history of Heroes is the history of Youth.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

The tragedy of life lies not in not reaching your goals, but in having no goals to reach.

Human beings are creatures of hope. We seek it in everything we do, we live for it, and we die holding onto it.

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes

But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavour, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it; as those who aim at perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, their hand is mended by the endevour, and is tolerable while it continues fair and legible

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it

I am captivated more by dreams of the future then history of the past.

If our great view is upon those of the next, the expectation of them is an infinitely higher satisfaction than the enjoyment of those of the present.