Aspirations Quotes

“Thinking about this cage he lived in, this prison where it felt like he'd spend the entirety of his life, cradle to grave, measuring the distance between his most modest hopes and all the cheap regret he actually ended up living. You passed your time in the cage, he figured, by clinging pointlessly and desperately to an endless series of unfinished sorrows.”
― Stephen Markley, Ohio

“The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figure it out.”
― Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

“It’s because people have aspirations and ambitions that solitude wears on them. If you don’t have a damn about what the rest of the world is up to, you can be alone for a hundred years- a thousand years- with no difficulty whatsoever. At least, you can if you don’t let criticism bother you.”
― Osamu Dazai, Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu

“Wisdom is realizing that one resource was never meant to accomplish just one thing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Let aspirations reach as leaves / which feel for sun beyond the clouds, / whatever warmth and radiance / might make your mind more like the rose:

(from Florescence)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“Basketball rule #3
Never let anyone
lower your goals
Other's expectations
of you are determined
by their limitations
of life.
The sky is the limit, sons.
Always shoot
for the sun
And you _will_ shine.”
― Kwame Alexander, The Crossover

“I would like to build a garden,' she declared. 'After all of this... I think the world needs more gardens.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“How long are you going to keep watching others live their dreams without going after your own?”
― Robin S. Baker

“Whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”
― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

“If you wonder why you haven’t climbed the mountain, it’s probably because you’ve spent too much time trying to find the perfect shoes.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I wish the world to be changed. To be better. To be what it could be rather than what it has chosen to become. Such wishes are good…in fact they are great and noble. But they must begin with me becoming what I wish the world was.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I put my imagination on a leash what I’ve really done is to put a noose around its neck.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes the biggest milestone is deciding to create one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Trust that you can be the best of yourself, which is all that you can ask of yourself and nothing less than what you should expect of yourself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Anxiety is our inability to gather enough patience within ourselves to act in the best interest of the long-term benefits.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Anxiety provokes us to choose short-term gains to compromise long-term benefits.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Anxiety can only expedite your stress, not your success.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“The things that you desire with ‘all of your heart’ will likely be the things that you will find along the way to the thing that you thought you desired with ‘all of your heart.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We all have our little gardens of dead dreams, don't we? And sometimes we still try to water and tend those gardens, long after we should know nothing will ever grow there.”
― J.L. Bryan, The Necromancer's Library

“If your dream is manageable, it’s just a nice idea that’s pretending to be a dream.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Everyone has desires and aspirations in life, regardless of whether they are in a position to achieve them or not. It is important to respect and support each other's dreams, rather than belittling or ridiculing them.”
― Vikrant Adams

“Yes, I have certainly seen and heard much. But there were not many heroes. We men are a flawed and rebellious herd. Our aspirations are lofty, but our doing is mired deep in the troubles of our own muddy mess.”
― Brock Meier, The Stone Cutter: A novel of Petra In Ancient Arabia

“It's like something in a fairy-tale," she complained to Pamela. "You are given a fairy palace, but when you try to go to it mountains of glass are set before you and you can't reach it”
― O. Douglas, Penny Plain

“Having a vision is like having a compass; it guides your actions and decisions, keeping you aligned with your true values and aspirations.”
― Billy Polk, Operation Self-Sustain: A Guide to Self-Sufficient Living

“Ambition didn’t come without apprehension.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Choose..
*not to follow the conventional path, but dance to the rhythm of your own aspirations.
*not to fear failure, but to see it as a stepping stone toward evolving.
*not to conform, but to write your unique story with valorous strokes of individuality.
*not to blend in, but to stand out like a lone star in the night sky.
*not to be a mere spectator, but an active architect of your own narrative.
*not to be bound by expectations, but to revel in the glorious freedom of your authentic self.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“A truly great ideal will always be greater than the men who attempt embody it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Intent without action is the muse of those who wish to be the hero without stepping onto the battlefield.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Lesser things are distractions disguised as aspirations.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The company you keep can either fuel your flight or anchor your dreams. Choose to fly high.”
― Felecia Etienne