Quotes about Aspirations

Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

It was sad, tragic—and true! Heaven could not be what Ruby had been used to. There had been nothing in her gay, frivolous life, her shallow ideals and aspirations, to fit her for that great change, or make the life to come seem to her anything but alien and unreal and undesirable.

them: the girls whose hearts were to be wrung were yet fair little maidens a-star with hopes and dreams.

The hysteria of suspicion has made us unreliable to ourselves, trusting neither our aspirations nor our convictions. Suspiciousness, not skepticism, is the beginning of our thinking.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living out fears.

If people are not laughing at your goals,then your goals are too small

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

When you are in high school, you don't give much thought to what you can't do. For most people, that gets learned later, and for still fewer, gets unlearned for the rest of life.

I hope your dreams take you to the corners of your smiles, to the highest of your hopes, to the windows of your opportunities, and to the most special places your heart has ever known.

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.