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Quotes about Aspiration

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
- William Hazlitt
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
- Candace Bushnell
I could see myself coaching at the high school level, but I'd really love to coach at UCLA. That would be a dream for me.
- Baron Davis
A young man in his twenties wrote, "I feel like a failure because I'm struggling to become something, and I don't even know what it is. All I know how to do is to get by. Someday, if I discover my purpose, I'll feel I'm beginning to live.
- Rick Warren
Goals may give focus, but dreams give power.
- John Maxwell
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
- Phillips Brooks
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
- Phillips Brooks
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.
- Phillips Brooks
We are too young to realise that certain things are impossible.
- William Wilberforce
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
- William Wordsworth
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
- Woodrow Wilson
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
- Roy Bennett