Aspirations, Aspiration Quotes

Tell them about the dream, Martin—the dream.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

Son, seek out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for you.

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.

Not failure, but low aim is sin.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Desire creates the power.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

When I was really little, I wanted to be a wrestler so I could be like the girls I looked up to. My brother then told me that 'You don't want to be like your idols; you want to grow up and be better than them.' To this day, that's the best piece of advice I've ever gotten.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.