Quotes about Aspiration
We needs must love the highest when we see it.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm crucified between the sky of what I intend to be and the earth of my performance.
- Fred Craddock
Passion is born when you catch a glimpse of your true potential.
- Fred Smith
What is possible for me is possible for you.
- Frederick Douglass
The world is evil only when you become its slave. The world has a lot to offer—just as Egypt did for the children of Jacob—as long as you don't feel bound to obey it. The great struggle facing you is not to leave the world, to reject your ambitions and aspirations, or to despise money, prestige, or success, but to claim your spiritual truth and to live in the world as someone who doesn't belong to it.
- Henri Nouwen
Setting our hearts on something involves not only serious aspiration but also strong determination. A spiritual life requires human effort. The forces that keep pulling us back into a worry-filled life are far from easy to overcome.
- Henri Nouwen
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream-world into a reality.
- Henry David Thoreau
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not to be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau