Quotes about Aspiration

Your words are always in pursuit of some kind of kingdom.

Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. 1

Theoretically, every probationary officer has a chance to become chairman.

I hope I will get a chance to compete in the Olympics.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

One thing my mother told was to go for what you believe and do something that will allow you to inspire others.

Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the very outset of my life freedom, and freedom is everything.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you couldn't fail?" When I got that, I thought, Of course, I would just go for it! And that's what you've got to do every single day of your thirties and beyond. Just go for it! Your life is now.

This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2

PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.