Quotes About Aspiration

Desire and aspiration are two different things. The idea that you want to achieve something in Zen meditation is basically selfish. 'I want to get enlightened' means 'I want to get enlightened.' But aspiration is not for myself, it is not a merely individual desire, it transcends the idea of self. It is desire without attachment. If enlightenment comes, good. If enlightenment does not come, good. Actually, this is enlightenment.

The only person I know, is the person I want to be

What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

By working on knowledge, skill, and desire

Because happy is what happens when all your dreams come true! Well ... isn't it?

Una manera de recordar quién eres es recordar quiénes son tus héroes. STEVE JOBS, CO FUNDADOR DE APPLE INC.

Mantente alejado de aquellas personas que tratan de menospreciar tus ambiciones. Las personas pequeñas siempre lo hacen, pero los verdaderamente grandes te hacen sentir que tú también puedes ser grande. MARK TWAIN, AUTOR

Not all dreamers achieve, but all achievers are dreamers.

Our honest belief that we can be far better than we are is one of the major reasons we are so bound.

Stop shooting for happiness. You are aiming too low.

create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

A dream's only a memory of the future, right?

Henry Ford, after he made his first billion dollars, was asked how much more he wanted. He said he wanted just a little more.

Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything.

Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.   AT

that born leaders don't fit the corporate mold, that I was destined for bigger things than hitching my wagon to someone else's star.

Doctor? ¿Es usted alguna clase de científico?". Y el doctor decía: "Señor, soy toda clase de científico". Y yo saltaba: "¡Sí! ¡Sí! ¡Eso es lo que yo quiero ser! ¡Toda clase de científico!».

Todos desean triunfar en un campo extremadamente competitivo en el que, si alcanzan la cima, les pagan una fortuna (por no hablar de la gloria y el poder que comporta).

It's not how good you are; it's how good you want to be.

That thrust was now being expressed in new forms, based on steel-frame construction, which allowed newspaper offices and insurance buildings to rise above the towering spire of Trinity Church; and Martin imagined great structures hundreds of stories high, each a city in itself, rising across the land.

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one.