Quotes About Aspiration

We must live with a goal .... because our goal will cause the things that will live in our absence .....

If your life were absolutely perfect, how would it look to you?

Set a goal to achieve something that's so big so exhilarating that excites you & scares you at the same time.

Sam Kalenuik has that enables him to say, "When the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.

A goal is a dream that is written down with every intention to achieve.

I think each of us, sometime in our life, has wanted to paint a picture.

Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a book to play some chords, so I was laying down 'Hound Dog' and things like that when I was 10 years old in 1955. That's the way I was. My ear was glued to the radio. I knew right then what I wanted to do.

Listen up, BIG SHOTS, BIGWIGS, and MUCKETY-MUCKS! What am I dressed for?" I'll ask. Success!" they'll yell. And what do clothes make?" I'll ask. The man!" they'll answer. Then it should come as no surprise when I say, I GOT BIG PLANS! BIG PLANS, I SAY!" I'm in!" says the mynah bird.

for that pent?up ambition.

I wanted to become world champion, and in this respect school couldn't give me anything… It is better to be one of the strongest chess players in the world, than to be one of many thousands with a diploma.

I want to live the rest of my house in a house built exactly like a rook.

Be a dreamer of reality

Ireland has a very different attitude to success than a lot of places, certainly than over here in the United States. In the United States, you look at the guy that lives in the mansion on the hill, and you think, you know, one day, if I work really hard, I could live in that mansion. In Ireland, people look up at the guy in the mansion on the hill and go, one day, I'm going to get that bastard. It's a different mind-set.

I wouldn't run for President. I wouldn't want to move to a smaller house.

I want to run I want to hide I want to tear down the walls That hold me inside I want to reach out And touch the flame Where the streets have no name

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

I had no schooling whatever while I was a slave, though I remember on several occasions I went as far as the schoolhouse door with one of my young mistresses to carry her books. The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

Do not be satisfied with second-hand or third-hand things in life. Do not be satisfied until you have put yourselves into that atmosphere where you can seize and hold on to the very highest and most beautiful things that can be got out of life.

Is this life?'Alice wondered, not doubting that the question was original and all her own. 'Is it life to spend your time imagining things that aren't so, and never will be? Beautiful things happen to other people; why should I be the only one they never can happen to?

Booth Tarkington

Así, la condición económica y social influye sobre la vocación al matrimonio [...]

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.