Aspirations Quotes

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!

~ Steve Maraboli

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

~ Mark Twain

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

~ Virginia Woolf

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 different dimension from everyone else I knew. There was waking, and there was sleeping. And then there were books, a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger. My real, true world. My perfect island.

~ Anna Quindlen

Aim higher in case you fall short.

~ Suzanne Collins

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

~ James Dean

If you can dream it, you can do it.

~ Walt Disney Company

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.

~ Luci Swindoll

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

~ Suzy Kassem

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

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

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.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

~ Patrick Swayze

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces.

~ Alain De Botton

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?Good..

~ Vera Nazarian

Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on Uncle Keith's trunk. Behind Tacy's house the sun had set. A wind had sprung up and the trees, their color dimmed, moved under a brooding sky. All the stories she had told Tacy and Tib seemed to be dancing in those trees, along with all the stories she planned to write some day and all the stories she would read at the library. Good stories. Great stories. The classics. Not Rena's novels.

~ Maud Hart Lovelace

Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

~ Orson Scott Card

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.

~ Suzy Kassem

Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine all the peopleLiving life in peaceYou may say that I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will be as one

~ John Lennon

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 — envy, jealousy, and resentment may put out your flame before it grows.

~ Suzy Kassem

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

~ Wade Davis

My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Far too often the ‘things’ that men define as success do little more than successfully destroy the lives of the very men who achieve those ‘things.’ And while I must admit that there is an authentic element of success in all of that, it’s the kind of success that I would much prefer to successfully avoid.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.

~ Henry M. Wriston

The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places.

~ John Howard Griffin

Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.

~ Victoria Addino

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love,Where there is injury, pardon;Where there is doubt, faith;Where there is despair, hope;Where there is darkness, light;And where there is sadness, joy.O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved, as to love.For it is in giving that we receive,It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

~ Francis Of Assisi

To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes to change a situation you are in requires you to take a giant leap. But, you won't be able to fly unless you are willing to transform.

~ Suzy Kassem

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.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

~ Louisa May Alcott

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

~ Langston Hughes

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.(From an introductory speech at a session of the Académie Française, December 24, 1896)

~ Anatole France

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

~ Michelangelo Buonarroti