Quotes about Aspiration

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

The height of my goals will not hold me in awe, though I may stumble often before they are reached.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

The Stoics aspired to the repression of all emotion, and the Epicureans to freedom from all disturbance; yet in the upshot the one has become a synonym of stubborn endurance, the other for unbridled licence.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

You become what you think about most of the time.

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!