Quotes About Aspiration

Set your ambitions, even if you are uncertain about what they should be. The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power.

Much of happiness is hope,

that something better might be attained in the future by giving up something of value in the present.

Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.

Attend to the day, but aim at the highest good. Now, your trajectory is heavenward. That makes you hopeful. Even a man on a sinking ship can be happy when he clambers aboard a lifeboat! And who knows where he might go, in the future. To journey happily may well be better than to arrive successfully….

You're not everything you could be, and you know it.

el orden que aspiramos a imponer en el mundo se puede solidificar a raíz de nuestros cándidos empeños por dejar de sopesar todo lo desconocido. Cuando estos empeños llegan demasiado lejos, acecha el totalitarismo, impulsado por el deseo de ejercer un control completo cuando no es posible ni siquiera a nivel teórico.

What would your life look like, if it were better?

Attend to the day, but aim at the highest good. Now, your trajectory is heavenward. That

But not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many

Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at that.

Nietzsche said that a man's worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate. You are by no means only what you already know. You are also all that which you could know, if you only would. Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are. You should never give up the better that resides within for the security you already have—and certainly not when you have already caught a glimpse, an undeniable glimpse, of something beyond.

There is no shortage of oppressors among the downtrodden, even if, given their lowly positions, many of them are only tyrannical wannabes.

You should never give up the better that resides within for the security you already have—and certainly not when you have already caught a glimpse, an undeniable glimpse, of something beyond.

You could be more than you are." When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future.

When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future. Then you disturb others,

What you aim at, determines what you see.

Everyone is always broadcasting to everyone else their desire to encounter the ideal.

But if it's uncertain that our ideals are attainable, why do we bother reaching in the first place? Because if you don't reach for them, it is certain you will never feel that your life has meaning.

What if it was the case that the world revealed whatever goodness it contains in precise proportion to your desire for the best?

Attend to the day, but aim at the highest good.

Stretching yourself beyond the boundaries of your current self requires carefully choosing and then pursuing ideals: ideals that are up there, above you, superior to you—and that you can't always be sure you will reach. But if it's uncertain that our ideals are attainable,

We are always and simultaneously at point "a" (which is less desirable than it could be), moving towards point "b" (which we deem better, in accordance with our explicit and implicit values).

Stretching yourself beyond the boundaries of your current self requires carefully choosing and then pursuing ideals: ideals that are up there, above you, superior to you—and that you can't always be sure you will reach.