Quotes about Aspiration

Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. Wealth has given me enormous power. It gave me at the very outset of my life freedom, and freedom is everything.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you couldn't fail?" When I got that, I thought, Of course, I would just go for it! And that's what you've got to do every single day of your thirties and beyond. Just go for it! Your life is now.

This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2

PRINCIPLE 3 Arouse in the other person an eager want.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Faith has two main parts: one is vision and one is desire, or will. Vision is seeing reality as it is, or in the case of the future, as it could be for us. Desire is wanting reality to be as it is, or as we hope it could be.

Desire—wanting something that appears to be good for some purpose or pleasure.

If you keep on believing the dreams that you wish will come true.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.

I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.