Quotes About Aspiration

You could wish to travel to the sky with a jump, but, unless your legs were mountains or you had a map charting where the high blue reached close, no words could take you there, and no king or queen could, even if willing, finance such a leap.

Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level. It just might take you more than your lifetime to run into the walls of a box this big.

When we fear big, we either consciously or subconsciously work against it.

When you allow yourself to accept that big is about who you can become, you look at it differently.

Instead of forgetting your dreams and living within your means, try pursuing the means to live your dreams.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Those who wrote down their goals were 39.5 percent more likely to accomplish them.

Think as big as you possibly can and base what you do, how you do it, and who you do it with on succeeding at that level.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." — Thomas Henry Huxley

Pursue a big life and you're pursuing the greatest life you can possibly live. To live great, you have to think big.

You must be open to the possibility that your life and what you accomplish can become great.

Only living big will let you experience your true life and work potential

In this context, big is a placeholder for what you might call a leap of possibility.

Half-filled dreams and unfulfilled hopes: this was the number-one regret expressed by the dying.

Low goals don't require extraordinary actions so they rarely lead to extraordinary results.

Small plans at best yield small results, and big plans at worst beat small plans.

Highly successful people choose to live at the outer limits of achievement. They not only dream of but deeply crave what is beyond their natural grasp.

Here's the truth: not everyone will, but anyone can.

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

Be the dream. —JOHN CHANEY

Goals must be high enough to excite you, yet not so high that you cannot vividly imagine them. Goals must be attainable, but just out of reach for now.

myself. It allows me to "Act as if" I am the greatest version of myself, by pushing my boundaries.

The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that career. When he comes home from war no longer able to see himself as a baseball prospect, he isn't sure who he is. This is thoroughly reinforced every time one of his acquaintances identifies him by baseball or inquires about his status. How much of our identity and worth is wrapped up in our job title or the one we are aspiring to?

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.