Quotes about Aspiration

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

I know I'm far from being what I should; will I ever be?

I can't keep that up...finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if...there weren't any other people living in the world.

I know that I can write, a couple of my stories are good, my descriptions of the 'Secret Annex' are humorous, there's a lot in my diary that speaks, but whether I have real talent remains to be seen.

People settle. They settle for less than they are capable of.

Mediocre is merely a failed attempt to be really good.

Tiffany's blue box is a slogan without words. It stands for elegance and packaging and quality and "price is no object.

We need both to aspire and accomplish. Without a vision for your life, without a sense of purpose, you will begin to die a slow death.

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.

At the beginning of his struggle, the Warrior says: "I have dreams."