Quotes about Aspiration
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
— George Washington Carver
Young—never settle for less than the spiritual and moral grandeur of which you're capable, with the help of God's grace.
— George Weigel
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
— Lily Tomlin
What makes life dreary is want of motive.
— George Eliot
I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
— Oscar Wilde
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!
— Soren Kierkegaard
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
— Henry David Thoreau
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
— Teresa of Avila
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
— Henry David Thoreau