Quotes About Aspiration

We find the important similarity of virtue to skill in skills where two things are united: the need to learn and the drive to aspire.

Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.

The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.

Without faith, it is impossible for you to become great.

it is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it. Desire is a manifestation of power.

Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

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 praiseworthy.

Spend most of your leisure time in contemplating your vision

Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life and to get these desires arranged into a coherent whole.

You naturally want to become all that you are capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature.

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 praiseworthy. The person who does not desire to live more abundantly is uncommon. The individual who does not desire to have money enough to buy all that is desired may not be living to full potential.

There was somewhere, if you knew where to find it, some place where money could be made like drawing water from a well, some Big Rock Candy Mountain where life was effortless and rich and unrestricted and full of adventure and action, where something could be had for nothing.

We all hitched our wagons to the highest stars we could find.

She resents rusting unburnished when she wants to shine in use.

Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else -- pathway to the stars, maybe.

But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

I know well that only the rarest kind of best can be good enough for the young.

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?