Aspiration Quotes

Don't just float through life; don't just agree to anything and everything, have a course you are known for at all times.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

remember when God has answered you, it no longer matters who has been against you but for Him to answer you and change your story, you have to make up your mind to disobey the wrong order, change the status quo and BE DIFFERENT!

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

When you aspire to inspire before you expire, you conspire to inspire even after you pause to respire. Keep pushing it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.

~ Pawan Mishra

Make sure that some aspects of your ideal day show up every day for you in business and in life.

~ David J. Greer

The volume of your impacts is measured by the direction of your movements, the passion with which you inspire and the attitudes by which you make an influence!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Let us runaway to the aspirations we dream of in our childish moments, where magic is real and we are unstoppable.

~ Anastasia Bolinder

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemous propositions. Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution. And still we hear the cry, 'The whole world for Christ'.

~ Virchand Gandhi

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

~ Bryant Mcgill

God is the best makeup Artist I have ever seen however, you may get an honorable mention for sprucing.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Live through it or grow from it.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do? Or be? She had given up dancing-the dance-because it was too demanding, because it required an almost total devotion which she was unwilling to give. The cruelest art. 

~ Edward Abbey

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Dreams aren't finish lines to be reached at the close of a race. They don't suddenly materialize, fulfilled, where the road ends. The entire journey is included in the dream―all of it from beginning to forevermore. You're on that journey right now; hence, you're living the dream. Enjoy it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it.

~ Anthony Liccione

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.

~ Clarice Lispector

Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...

~ Alexander Zalan

Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorgeous moments have passed towards your eyes, while you're waiting for the best shot to reveal yourself

~ Alexander Zalan

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.

~ Johnny Rich

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say here and now that any unsolicited manuscripts or typescripts sent to me will be destroyed unread. You must make your way yourself. Why you should be so set on the nearly always disappointing profession is a puzzling question.

~ Kingsley Amis

Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be.

~ Bill Courtney

There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it's light weight. If you do, it will damage the axle of the cart.

~ Thiruvalluvar

The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.

~ Alfred Alcorn

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses, --only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

~ Franz Werfel

Sometimes people are very predictable: they want a kitten in June, for example, and come the first of September they want someone to drown their cat. So someone does. But other times, people have dreams and things they want they can keep. Eriksson was the man who fulfilled these dreams. No one knew exactly what he found for himself along the way - probably a lot less than people thought. But he went on doing it anyway, perhaps for the sake of the search.

~ Tove Jansson

It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.

~ David Kynaston

Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations

~ Bryant Mcgill

Nothing is over our heads if we hold them high enough.

~ Johnny Rich

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.

~ Pawan Mishra

We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (“The Thing”)

~ Richard Matheson

A longing for the extraordinary had grabbed ahold of her and was burning her up inside, so hot and fierce that her heart had gone stone cold toward everything and everybody standing in her way. That was Mama. Fire and ice.

~ D. Anne Love

...you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. The real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

After much effort to live up to a glorious standard there came fatigue, wan hope, and boredom. I experienced extreme boredom. I saw others experiencing it too, many denying, by the way, that any such thing existed. And finally I decided that I would make boredom my subject matter. That I'd study it. That I'd become the world's leading authority on it. March, that was a red-letter day for humanity. What a field! What a domain! Titanic! Promethean! I trembled before it. I was inspired. I couldn't sleep. Ideas came in the night and I wrote them down, volumes of them. Strange that no one had gone after this systematically.Oh, melancholy, yes, but not modern boredom.

~ Saul Bellow

A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you.

~ Maurice Duffy

Life is sometimes like knockout football; if you have no goal, invite penalty!

~ Abhijit Kar Gupta

If you’re not smiling at yourself in the mirror, you probably need to check that the life you’re building is aligned to the life you dreamed for yourself. And if you’re not dreaming, you need to start dreaming.

~ Alice Bag

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are

~ John F. Kennedy