237 Quotes About Aspirations

Without the height of the peak and the depth of our commitment to scale it, we will spend the whole of our lives viewing our dreams from the bottom looking up.

I can choose to see a horizon as yet another indistinct place that I can barely make out from where I’m standing, or I can see it as the backside of a glorious tomorrow. And the attitude that I choose to embrace will dictate every horizon that I get to pursue.

Maybe everyone has hunger like this - impossible, insatiable, but all-consuming in spite of it all. Maybe the desert dreams of spilling rivers, valleys of a view. Maybe that hunger will one day pass. But if it does, I will be left shelled and halved and hollowed.

Is something really ‘too late,’ or is that the excuse I use because I’m ‘too afraid?

Someone once said that we should ‘shoot for the moon’. I would whole-heartedly concur for this simple reason; once we get to the moon we are now in a position to ‘shoot for the stars’.

No, I don’t want to live a fairy-tale life fashioned of pixie-dust and enchanted forests. I would much rather forge a life out of the dust and grime of this soiled existence, for to fashion a life out of materials such as these is truly magic.

...everyone holding a check pad is an aspiring something-else.

Beating the impossible never starts when we reach for the stars. Rather, it starts when we fall to our knees.

Perfection is not given to any man. But an aspiration to perfection—to the highest possible standards in every aspect of life—is possible.