High Aspirations Quotes

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

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

One of the principles we teach in our programs is "If you shoot for the stars, you'll at least hit the moon." Poor people don't even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they're not successful.

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

I don't want to play with marbles, when God told me to move mountains!

Even by Silicon Valley standards, PayPal's vision was massively ambitious.

I believe in allowing your child to be who they want to be - as long as they want to be something great.

I'm ambitious, which is why I chose Villa.

The Canadian kid who wants to grow up to be Prime Minister isn't thinking big, he is setting a limit to his ambitions rather early.

What you plan is too small for you to live.

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.

There isn't a king or a merchant prince in the whole world that I envy, for I always knew I was born to be a child of destiny and that I was never meant to wring my living from detestable, low, degrading, mean and ordinary kinds of business.

America is too great for small dreams.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

As individuals, we must think nobler thoughts. We must not encourage vile thoughts or low aspirations. We shall radiate them if we do. If we think noble thoughts, if we encourage and cherish noble aspirations, there will be that radiation when we meet people, especially when we associate with them.

I always felt I was going to be famous.

Never start small where goals are concerned. You'll make better decisions - and find it much easier to work a lot harder - when your ultimate goal is ultimate success.

To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends.

I had a chance to go on the Supreme Court of the United States, and my whole family was more disappointed in my deciding not to do that than in my deciding not to run for president - much more.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.