Quotes about Aspiration

Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Men do not attract that which they -want,- but that which they -are.-

The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart—this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

You will be what you will to be;

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration:

Dwell in thought upon the Grandest, And the Grandest you shall see ; Fix your mind upon the Highest, And the Highest you shall be.

You will rise as high as your greatest aspiration, or fall as low as your

On the wings of aspiration man rises from earth to heaven, from ignorance to knowledge, from the under darkness to the upper light. Without it he remains a grovelling animal, earthly, sensual, unenlightened, and uninspired. Aspiration is the longing for heavenly things.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.