Quotes about Aspirations

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you turn out to be. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall sooner or later be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. The finest achievement turned into before everything and for a time a dream. The okaysleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and within the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

El alma atrae aquello que secretamente alberga; aquello que ama, y también aquello que teme; alcanza la cúspide de sus más preciadas aspiraciones, cae al nivel de sus más impuros deseos; y las circunstancias son los medios por los que el alma recibe lo que es suyo.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself. No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings apart from vicious inclinations, or ascending into virtue and its pure happiness without the continued cultivation of virtuous aspirations; and man, therefore, as the lord and master of thought, is the maker of himself, the shaper and author of environment.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours, that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires—and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.

Spiritual achievements are the consummation of holy aspirations. He

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

We are all more than our experiences And less than our dreams ~ from I Am Glass

You can talk all you want about having a strategy for your life, understanding motivation, and balancing aspirations with unanticipated opportunities. But ultimately, this means nothing if you do not align those with where you actually expend your time, money, and energy. In other words, how you allocate resources is where the rubber meets the road.

The pleasure principle is an artificial creation of psychology. Pleasure is not the goal of our aspirations, but the consequence of attaining them.

Virtually all the characters in the novel have failed to live up to their early dreams and ambitions.

The best thing about dreams is that youth holds on to them.