Quotes About Aspiration

The Glories of the Possible are Ours.

Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up

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.

America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.

Words do inspire.

the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition.

trying to trace out my future in the lives of the people

To the furniture worker's child in North Carolina who wants to become a doctor or a scientist, an engineer or an entrepreneur, a diplomat or even a president -- that's the future we hope for. That's the vision we share. That's where we need to go -- forward

Wanting to be in politics but not of it.

if Abbas had been a younger man, more intent on making his mark than protecting himself from criticism.

I recognized that in running for Congress I'd been driven not by some selfless dream of changing the world, but rather by the need to justify the choices I had already made, or to satisfy my ego, or to quell my envy of those who had achieved what I had not.

It was the sort of change that's important not because it alters your concrete circumstances in some way (wealth, security, fame) but because it hints at what might be possible and therefore spurs you on, beyond the immediate exhilaration, beyond any subsequent disappointments, to retrieve that thing that you once, ever so briefly, held in your hand.

Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?

If I aspired to lead the free world, I decided, I'd have to make climate change a priority of my campaign and my presidency.

there would always be a chasm between what I knew should be done to achieve a better world and what in a day, week, or year I found myself actually able to accomplish.

Honest, decent men and women with attainable ambitions, and the determination to see those ambitions through.

Later, you add to that definition: making money. How much money can you make?

there's a direct link between doing your work and having your wishes come true.

The audacity of hope.

don't live a smaller life than you deserve.

When I watch TV over my dinner at night, I see a world in which almost everyone makes $15 an hour or more, and I'm not just thinking of the anchor folks. The sitcoms and dramas are about fashion designers or schoolteachers or lawyers, so it's easy for a fast-food worker or nurse's aide to conclude that she is an anomaly—the only one, or almost the only one, who hasn't been invited to the party.

As a teenager, I aspired to be a scientist, but too many things happened to distract me from that goal, so I became instead a science appreciator.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.