Quotes about Aspiration

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

Every human being has a strategic role in God's purposes for the world. Every human being possesses a derived significance--grounded in God himself. And every human being is summoned to the highest of all possible aspirations--not to be God, but 'to be like' God himself. God is the standard for who we are and what our mission is in this world. By pursuing this loftiest of all goals, we move toward true flourishing as human beings.

We are God's eyes and ears, his hands and feet, his voice in this world. He didn't just level the playing field between men and women; he raised the bar sky high for both sexes, for he wants his image bearers to aspire, to push ourselves, and to reach toward the high calling he has entrusted to us.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Young—never settle for less than the spiritual and moral grandeur of which you're capable, with the help of God's grace.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.

I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.