Quotes About Aspiration

Dedicated to all boys and girls who love horses but never have had one of their own

One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

You long for a windfall that will let you quit and pursue your great hobby

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

And so you try as hard as you can to separate out what you wish from what is actually there, never abandoning your ultimate dreams for the film, but trying as hard as you can to see what is actually on the screen.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

In this place you can become the person you want to be. Anything can be gotten from books. In books there are rooms of gold, in books there is jadelike beauty.

Trees are living symbols of peace and hope. A tree has roots in the soil yet reaches to the sky. It tells us that in order to aspire we need to be grounded...

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

Bugger this. I want a better world.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it.What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. —Jim Rohn

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. —Chin-Ning Chu

The heights to which we aspire - often prove not as lofty as those that transpire.

I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

He could not help, too, rolling his large eyes round him as he ate, and chuckling with the possibility that he might one day be lord of all this scene of almost unimaginable luxury and splendor. Then, he thought, how soon he'd turn his back upon the old school-house; snap his fingers in the face of Hans Van Ripper, and every other niggardly patron, and kick any itinerant pedagogue out of doors that should dare to call him comrade!

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

I need his dreams. Life isn't life without them. And if he can give me the dreams, I think I can hold the rest together.