Quotes About Aspiration

When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future. Then you disturb others, in the depths of their souls, where they understand that their cynicism and immobility are unjustifiable. You play Abel to their Cain. You remind them that they ceased caring not because of life's horrors, which are undeniable, but because they do not want to lift the world up on to their shoulders, where it belongs.

What is a truly reliable source of positive emotion?" The answer is that people experience positive emotion in relationship to the pursuit of a valuable goal.

we don't experience any positive emotion unless we have an aim, and we can see ourselves progressing toward that aim

No eres de forma alguna tan solo lo que ya sabes, también eres todo lo que podrías saber si así lo quisieras.

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

the Ideal shames us all. Thus we fear it, resent it--even hate it[...]What are we to do about that? Abandon all ideals of beauty, health, brilliance and strength? That's not a good solution.

with each day, your baseline of comparison gets a little higher, and that's magic. That's compound interest. Do that for three years, and your life will be entirely different. Now you're aiming for something higher. Now you're wishing on a star. Now the beam is disappearing from your eye, and you're learning to see. And what you aim at determines what you see. That's worth repeating. What you aim at determines what you see.

An idea has an aim. It wants something. It posits a value structure. An idea believes that what it is aiming for is better than what it has now.

There is a high goal, a mountain peak, a star that shines in the darkness, beckoning above the horizon. Its mere existence gives you hope—and that is the meaning without which you cannot live.

is necessary to lift your eyes above the horizon, to establish a transcendent goal, if you wish to cease being a puppet, under the control of things you do not understand and perhaps do not want to understand. Then

It is necessary to lift your eyes above the horizon, to establish a transcendent goal, if you wish to cease being a puppet, under the control of things you do not understand and perhaps do not want to understand.

There is no shortage of oppressors among the downtrodden, even if, given their lowly positions, many of them are only tyrannical wannabes. It's the easiest path to choose, moment to moment, although it's nothing but hell in the long run.

It isn't you I care about, it is who you could be

Ambition is often—and often purposefully—misidentified with the desire for power,

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, 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.

There's no nobility in poverty.

My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.

Los humanos son inestables y siempre ambicionan más de lo que tienen. La evolución y la historia tenían que habernos enseñado eso.

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

I am growing and learning. There's so much more that I want to accomplish and do. I'm gonna do it at whatever pace it happens. I'm not trying to rush anything or slow anything down.

Me disse que queria ser livre como um passarinho. A verdade é que ele tinha graça.

Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.

She embodied his need to soar upward from the terrestrial humdrum.

Nuestro proyecto tiene una meta que sobrepasa la historia.