#Aspiration Quotes

“I hope to see London once ere I die.”

“Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.”

“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”

“King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.”

“Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.”

“What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.”

“The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.”

“There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.”

“You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.”

“A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.”

“A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.”

“You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.”

“I knew a lot about what I did when I was 20. I had read a lot, and I aspired to learn everything I could about the subject.”

“There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.”

“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”

“In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.”

“The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.”

“Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.”

“To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I'm a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything.”

“And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.”

“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”

“What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.”

“We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.”

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”

“We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.”

“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”

“The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.”

“We have every right to dream heroic dreams.”

“Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?”

“The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.”

“There are worse things to be called than a dreamer.”

“Have a vision. It is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible.”

“Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.”

“And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.”

“Hitch your wagon to a star.”

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!”

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”

“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.”

“Inspiration follows aspiration.”

“Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.”

“Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.”

“Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.”

“Never settle for the crumbs of life.”

“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”

“If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?”

“Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.”

“Come on 'long prosperous life!'”

“I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I'm doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.”

“We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.”