Quotes about Aspiration

Dreams are necessary to life.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

Here, as elsewhere, the gain of creation consists always in the growth of individual minds, which live and aspire, as flowers bloom and birds sing, in the midst of morasses; and in the continual development of that thought, the thought of human destiny, which is given to eternity adequately to express, and which ages of failure only seemingly impede.

What we think about when we are free to think about what we will — that is what we are or will soon become.

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

We start dying the day we stop dreaming. And ironically, we start living the day we discover a dream worth dying for.