Quotes about Aspiration

Faith has two main parts: one is vision and one is desire, or will. Vision is seeing reality as it is, or in the case of the future, as it could be for us. Desire is wanting reality to be as it is, or as we hope it could be.

Desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.

If you keep on believing the dreams that you wish will come true.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you've got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

Your latter days are supposed to be greater than your former days.

The big idea of education, from first to last, is the idea of a better place. Not a better place where you are, because you want it to be better and have been to school and learned to make it better, but a better place somewhere else. In order to move up, you have got to move on.

Another place! it's enough to grieve me — that old dream of going, of becoming a better man just by getting up and going to a better place.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.