Quotes About Aspiration

Setting our hearts on something involves not only serious aspiration but also strong determination. A spiritual life requires human effort. The forces that keep pulling us back into a worry-filled life are far from easy to overcome.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours...If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality.

The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?

We are a race of tit-men...

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do. It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.

In the long run, you hit only what you aim for.

All true greatness runs as level a course, and is as unaspiring, as the plow in the furrow. It wears the homeliest dress and speaks the homeliest language

Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or something to be.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not to be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.