Quotes about Aspiration

If I aspired to lead the free world, I decided, I'd have to make climate change a priority of my campaign and my presidency.

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what to hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. Almost no one gets a chance to alter the course of human events on purpose, in the exact same way they wish for it to be altered.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.