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Aspiration Quotes


"Prospect is often better than possession."


"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."


"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change."


"The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death."


"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals."


"You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky."


"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!"


"What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties."



"New York is more than a state of mind. It is the completion of a dream. ['New York at arm's length of desire']"


"Let your dreams be a manifestation of your vision."


"What do I aspire to be? Just an ordinary person who values living."


"Don't settle for a star when you can have the whole sky."


"Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing."


"The lonely road to greatness is better than the crowded road to mediocrity."


"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."



"Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs."


"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."


"Follow your dreams, not the crowd."


"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."


"When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it."


"I aspired to be the better me of my future."


"To dream only of what is 'possible' is to be fooled into believing that one is dreaming in the first place."


"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."


"Life ahead is full of endless opportunities."


"I started to shortcircuit because I had high aspirations for the film. I never told anybody that."


"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."


"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."


"I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all."


"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."


"Don't settle for ordinary. Dare to live a magical life."


"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."


"You too could strive, thrive, and become as great or even greater than the people that you admire."


"The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve."


"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."


"When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles."


"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."


"I was planning to remain an amateur for a while."


"Aim for the stars, and afterward, pass them."


"Every wheel wish to be the wheel of a car, and not of just another vehicle."


"Let your dreams keep you hopeful!"


"Dream big, but stay humble."



"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."



"You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person."


"Each of us has the ability to dream."


"I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point."


"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."


"Dreams and needs tear down fortress of impossibility."
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