Quotes about Aspiration
I value and trust those w^ho love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance.
- Henry David Thoreau
A voice said to him—Why do you stay here and live this mean moiling life, when a glorious existence is possible for you? Those same stars twinkle over other fields than these.—But how to come out of this condition and actually migrate thither? All that he could think of was to practise some new austerity, to let his mind descend into his body and redeem it, and treat himself with ever increasing respect.
- Henry David Thoreau
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- CS Lewis
I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
- Jordan Peterson
If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
- Zig Ziglar
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
- St. Augustine
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.
- Isabel Allende
Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.
- Napoleon Hill
Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.
- Les Brown
Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.
- Denzel Washington
Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
- Jon Bon Jovi
Do not be satisfied with little things, because God wants great things!
- Catherine of Siena