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Aspiration Quotes
"Staring at the mountain requires nothing. Climbing the mountain requires strength. Reaching the mountaintop requires perseverance. Staying at the mountaintop requires wisdom. Reaching for the stars requires everything."
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"Prospect is often better than possession."
93
"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change."
74
"I don't like regressing - I move beyond. Life belongs to the future and I believe in creating History rather than visiting and revisiting the past."
53
"What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."
51
"The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death."
51
"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals."
50
"We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own."
49
"When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles."
49
"What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living."
48
"What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!"
47
"New York is more than a state of mind. It is the completion of a dream. ['New York at arm's length of desire']"
46
"I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."
45
"The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth."
45
"Move on, sky is not limit, wind can touch you, water can dip you, mother will care you, wife will nurture you and above all, oneday you will see your child following, up above the sky; you became a star, twinkling, watching and waiting to come back again, on earth."
45
"To give your dream an honest try, is to persist and persevere for however long that it would take for it to meet its point of reality."
43
"What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it."
43
"The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve."
42
"The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford."
42
"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."
42
"My expectations for the future? A beautiful past."
41
"Let your dreams be a manifestation of your vision."
40
"I was planning to remain an amateur for a while."
39
"Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life."
39
"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not."
39
"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing."
38
"When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it."
37
"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university."
37
"To dream only of what is 'possible' is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place."
36
"Follow your dreams, not the crowd."
36
"Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises,' he said. 'Like water, they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of life. I believe your dream will come true if only because you will not compromise on it and let it go too lightly."
36
"I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point."
35
"You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person."
35
"You should have hopes. Hopes to nourish the courage that helps get success in life."
35
"The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that."
34
"When you dream of what you want to see, whether in your life, home, community or nation, you need to keep watching those dreams until they come to fulfillment."
34
"I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all."
34
"The lonely road to greatness is better than the crowded road to mediocrity."
34
"Each of us has the ability to dream."
34
"He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line."
33
"Let your dreams keep you hopeful!"
33
"Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility."
33
"London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it."
33
"Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs."
33
"I aspired to be the better me of my future."
32
"We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies."
29
"Don't settle for a star when you can have the whole sky."
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"Life ahead is full of endless opportunities."
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