Quotes about Aspirations

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

You know how a gardenia's petals reveal any telltale fingermarks by turning brown," the preacher said. "Your lives are like that. Purity is like that . . . Young people, don't give anything to the world to destroy. Don't be ashamed of high ideals, dreams, and beautiful thoughts.

But we the faithful share in the action by uniting ourselves to the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ which is made present in the Mass, and by offering our adoration, and our very selves, and all our work and our joys and our sufferings, and our aspirations, to God as the particular things which we alone can offer. No one else can offer me to the Lord. This is an act which I alone can carry out.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

We all have dreams, whether it be about success in our careers, improving our relationship with family and friends, or sorting out our finances.

We're pursuing a strategy of freedom around the world, because I understand free nations will reject terror. Free nations will answer the hopes and aspirations of their people.

This election is about you, your hopes, your dreams, your fears, and what wakes you up at 3 a.m.

Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

Nothing proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards the splendors of destiny.

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.