Quotes about aspirations

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

The change we want is within us and shall always be within us the change we can have is in the steps we can take to realize the change we want. Take a step if you want a change!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Life is cold I will put on my clothes and wear my shoes

Wayne Gerard Trotman -

Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations.

James Dean -

Dream as if you will live forever Live as if you will die today.

Chris Kurtz - The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A novel of snow and courage

I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be

Saim .A. Cheeda - Here & After

I’ve suppressed my aspirations to forget all rationality and let the moment explain everything, for nothing to be said and everything understood. If only I knew how to let these feelings out.

James MacDonald -

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

The promise of aspiration is that it is evolutionary. The human condition is such that we are always aspiring to be something more, something better, something nobler. It starts as a thought, a want, a need, or a desire and then grows and evolves with intention and direction, upward with lust and hunger. The continued drive feeds the rise.

Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Tell yourself often: I am going to tackle my aspirations head on with the passion and dedication necessary to exceed even my expectations.

Sasha Grey -

[What do you want to be when you grow up?] "A wrecker of civilizaton

Scott Fortino -

I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed, so I accepted the sky

Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything

As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a cell? Yet it's impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours - perhaps even stronger. Life just wants to be.

Bryant McGill - Voice of Reason

Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!

Sugata Mitra -

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

Thomas Bernhard - Concrete

Whatever condition we are in, we must always do what we want to do, and if we want to go on a journey, then we must do so and not worry about our condition, even if it's the worst possible condition, because, if it is, we're finished anyway, whether we go on the journey or not, and it's better to die having made the journey we're been longing for than to be stifled by our longing.

Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Aspire to high standards, expect strong results, offer self praise, and stack your confidence.

Vishwas Chavan -

Cleanliness is a freedom movement for an aspiring Nation. Culture of cleanliness will influence the heygine, health, asthetics and natural setting of the nation, which is a new age currency of a country.

Karlie Kloss -

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Life is lived to accomplish a mission! Life must be lived with a vision! Life is moved by the heart and the mind! When your mission becomes your mind, your mind becomes your mission. When your vision becomes your heart, your heart becomes your vision! When your mission and your visions in life become your heart and your mind, you mind not just your mission and vision, but also your life as a whole and the footprints you leave with every footstep you take!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something!

Sugar Ray Leonard -

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Red Red Rover -

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Hans Christian Andersen - The Ugly Duckling

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

Debasish Mridha -

You don't need to be a great singer to sing, but you have to practice singing to be a great singer.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Speak blessings, and write wishes. ~T.F. Hodge

Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

When aspirations are perceived to be achievable, ambition and drive can erase excuses.

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be

James Robertson - And the Land Lay Still

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguish

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Hope fuels your inspirations while doubts assault your aspirations!

Karl Kloppenborg -

Attitudes are like mirrors, they reflect towards anyone that's looking.

Coco Chanel -

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Marilyn Monroe -

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the ‘impossible’ that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway.

Eric C. Sinoway -

You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, think carefully about your priorities.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Although I regularly convince myself otherwise, because I aim at something doesn’t necessarily mean I have a target.

Jamey Glasnovic - Lost and Found: Adrift in the Canadian Rockies

The human animal needs something to aspire to, somewhere to go and something to do.

Jamie Valentin -

Change words like difficult/impossible/unrealistic to words like challenging/fun/daring/exciting, and then get back to working/playing/competing/winning

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

Just like the cast of a great movie and the career of great athletes few success stories are a one man show. Build your team and grow.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

The vision of life is not a "discovery"; it's a "work" and whatever position you occupy demands work. Your life may not be built on your visions if you go high and find yourself doing the vice. Going higher should be a priority; but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!

Steven Redhead - Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind

Capture the essence of your aspirations by understand the true meaning of your intuitive thoughts.

James C. Dobson - Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

When you strip away all the layers one by one, not much remains to “discover.” You will never find real meaning among your selfish interests, feelings, and aspirations. The answers do not lie within you.

Neil Gaiman -

Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an au

Raheel Farooq -

Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.

Richie Norton - and Live without Regret

If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.

Shannon L. Alder -

Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.

Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.

Brittany Perloff - Starting Over

when you shoot for the stars, you can't ever look back.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Defend your leadership roles with your true character. Never attack your own aspirations with corruption and unfaithfulness! Keep calm and be honest!

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

Saki - Reginald

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Santosh Avvannavar - God's Table: The Last Supper

For several people the challenge with the dream isn't bread & butter but the luxury.

Ryan Lilly -

The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you, your goals can shrink from the envious eyes of others. Animosity, jealousy and resentment can put out your flame before it grows.

Craig D. Lounsbrough - An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?

Trevor Noah - Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you don’t have to ask yourself any of the big questions. Who am I? Who am I supposed to be? Am I doing enough? In the hood you can be a forty-year-old man living in your mom’s house asking people for money and it’s not looked down on. You never feel like a failure in the hood, because someone’s always worse off than you, and you don’t feel like you need to do more, because the biggest success isn’t t

Michael Bassey Johnson -

You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.

Moffat Machingura - Life Capsules

Confidently step into the future, knowing that God has got you this far as a promise that He is able to get you beyond.

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Selfish DreamscapesIf you have a dream, as you should, relish in being selfish about building every passionate aspect of it. The crowd of spectators and consumers will still be exactly where you left them... gossiping about everybody else's dream but their own.

Acharya Mahapragya -

It is very difficult to understand man. It is also very difficult to understand what a man does. If he is able to give an explanation, it may be easier. Even then everything can not be understood. Words have their limitation and comprehension, its limits. So if we are able to understand 25% of what is being said, even that should be deemed, as good communication skills are very good. Beyond this one should not even aspire for.

Lorii Myers - The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

People aspire, learn, and grow when they are ready to commit to the process.

Jessica Brody - Unremembered

Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Smile Anyway

Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.

Lauren Oliver - Delirium

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you, your goals will shrink in the eyes of others. Envy, jealousy, and resentment will put out your flame before it grows. Never reveal what you are doing until you have accompl

Steven Redhead - Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind

Get in touch with your inner most desire and aspirations, then utilise the power of your heart to create a life of bliss.

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true

Goitsemang Mvula -

To aspire is to go back to the start of the journey when you're one lap away from the finish line, we have to begin with the end in mind and dig for for the opium goals.

Roopleen -

Celebrate who you are and what you stand for. Give wings to your dreams and live your aspirations. You've got only one life- live it in the best way you possibly can.

Virginia Woolf - Orlando

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

Anna Quindlen - How Reading Changed My Life

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. I learned who I was and who I wanted to be, what I might aspire to, and what I might dare to dream about my world and myself. More powerfully and persuasively than from the "shalt nots" of the Ten Commandments, I learned the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. A Wrinkle in Time described that evil, that wrong, existing in a different dimension from our own. But I felt that I, too, existed much of the time in a di

Luci Swindoll - I Married Adventure: Looking at Life Through the Lens of Possibility

It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.

Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire

Aim higher in case you fall short.

Walt Disney Company -

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Ana Claudia Antunes - A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream

Don't pay attention to people Who tell you can't do it at lenght. Trusting your own instincts Can lead to what's quintessential. Make their limitation be your strenght. You might as well contradict them And then reach your full potential.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!

Mark Twain - Life on the Mississippi

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself?

Michael Bassey Johnson -

Aspirations forms the plot of success.

Scott Hastie -

Once spun,The silken thread of all our aspirationsRemains intact,It can never be broken.

Edward Abbey - The Monkey Wrench Gang

Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her time, through space, through the concatenate cells of her unfolding self. Where to now, Abbzug? You're twenty-eight and a half years old, Abbzug. 

Amaka Imani Nkosazana - Sweet Destiny

Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don't produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana -

Wake up with a purpose and make every effort to succeed. Many people spend their lives just going through the motions. They are satisfied with their daily routines or habitual lifestyles. Don't be complacent with those activities. Challenge yourself to be better, do greater things.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana - Sweet Destiny

In a world where things are moving so fast, don't get lost in the midst of it all. Figure out what's more important to you and proceed with confidence. I know it gets a bit hectic at times and almost seems impossible. But, you can get there, even if you must pause along the way. Just don't come to a complete stop.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

A team's inspiration comes from individuals' aspirations. The combined quality of individual passions makes a team's impact to excel. When you are in a team, play a part!

Parul Wadhwa - The Masquerade

It feels like home, far from home, yet homely. I have always been a fan of Delhi's practical life not that i have lived in an aspiration or yearning to make a living here, but delhi has always been on my soapbox.

Marty Rubin -

What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living.

Augusten Burroughs - A Wolf at the Table

I nodded again, but I knew I would not grow up to drive a bulldozer. It would be awful to be dirty all day like these men. I didn't say it, but at best I would keep one in the backyard, like a goat.

Tony Curl - Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck

What life can you create when those activities spent “killing” or “wasting” time were put into the quest for a better you? What would your life be like if instead of “chilling and net flicks” you devoted time to wellness and thinking? A much better life awaits you with some simple choices, backed by intentional actions.

Alyssa Bornhorst -

The insinuation that without a female president women cannot pursue and achieve their dreams is not only false but recalls the ever-condenscending liberal attitude towards women: "We know what women want, even if they do not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

What is an adventure, I might ask? And in the asking, I might begin to understand that my adventures are sorely limited to the confines of my lackluster imagination. Therefore, an adventure of the most robust and wild sort must be constructed by an unlimited imagination. And unless I am mistaken, only God has an imagination like that.

Saim .A. Cheeda -

What was once thought, so it shall become.

Katy Cannon - And Then We Ran

Turns out there's more than one way to achieve your dreams.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Here's a funny question:What is your favorite word?Think about it—maybe it's a word that makes you absolutely happy, or a word that sounds gloriously beautiful, or a word that evokes awe and wonder. Maybe you are reminded of a great time when you hear it, or maybe it represents your life's dream.So, what is it? What is your favorite word of all words?Thought about it yet

Mike Norton -

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

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