Aspirations Quotes

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces.

Alain de Botton

Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.

Richelle E. Goodrich

It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.

Luci Swindoll

Aim higher in case you fall short.

Suzanne Collins

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

Hans Christian Andersen

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Mike Norton

Core passions and aspirations should be consistent and in sync.

Lorii Myers

Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.

Victoria Addino

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.

Henry David Thoreau

In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

Virginia Woolf

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

Jodi Picoult

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Mark Twain

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

Orson Scott Card