Aspirations Quotes

“The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you don’t have to ask yourself any of the big questions. Who am I? Who am I supposed to be? Am I doing enough? In the hood you can be a forty-year-old man living in your mom’s house asking people for money and it’s not looked down on. You never feel like a failure in the hood, because someone’s always worse off than you, and you don’t feel like you need to do more, because the biggest success isn’t that much higher than you, either. It allows you to exist in a state of suspended animation.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don't pay attention to people
Who tell you can't do it at lenght.
Trusting your own instincts
Can lead to what's quintessential.
Make their limitation be your strenght.
You might as well contradict them
And then reach your full potential.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of all the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a cell? Yet it's impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours - perhaps even stronger. Life just wants to be.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“Any dream that I am absolutely confident I can achieve should immediately be discarded for the simple reason that it is simply too small.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As a child, I cried because I had no toy until I met a child who had no bread.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What was once thought, so it shall become.”
― Saim .A. Cheeda

“Der Erdenkreis ist mir genug bekannt.
Nach drüben ist die Aussicht uns verrannt:
Tor! wer dorthin die Augen blinzelnd richtet,
Sich über Wolken seines gleichen dichtet;
Er stehe fest und sehe hier sich um;
Dem Tüchtigen ist diese Welt nicht stumm”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

“Although I regularly convince myself otherwise, because I aim at something doesn’t necessarily mean I have a target.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It feels like home, far from home, yet homely. I have always been a fan of Delhi's practical life not that i have lived in an aspiration or yearning to make a living here, but delhi has always been on my soapbox.”
― Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade

“I ask, ‘Is the cup half-empty or half-full?’ And when I ask that question, I am amazed at how many people have no cup.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Je sens en moi, confusément, des aspirations extraordinaires, des sortes de lames de fond, des mouvements, des agitations incompréhensibles, et que je ne veux pas chercher à comprendre, que je ne veux même pas observer, par crainte de les empêcher de se produire.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“I’ve suppressed my aspirations to forget all rationality and let the moment explain everything, for nothing to be said and everything understood. If only I knew how to let these feelings out.”
― Saim .A. Cheeda, Here & After

“There are some moments in life
That change us forever”
― Mimi Novic

“One day incentives may catch up with inflation, but it will never catch up with our aspirations.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Am I on a bold journey of lofty ascents, or am I sitting in a simulator of my own making?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The insinuation that without a female president women cannot pursue and achieve their dreams is not only false but recalls the ever-condenscending liberal attitude towards women: "We know what women want, even if they do not.”
― Alyssa Bornhorst

“Far too often the ‘things’ that men define as success do little more than successfully destroy the lives of the very men who achieve those ‘things.’ And while I must admit that there is an authentic element of success in all of that, it’s the kind of success that I would much prefer to successfully avoid.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“كنا نمضي الوقت معاً، فنحتسي أكواب الشاي، وندخن، ونلعب الورق من أجل تمضية الوقت، ذلك الجبار الذي يستعبدنا ويخضعنا جميعاً لسلطانه، كنا نريد أن نقتله بلعب الورق، لكننا كنا نقتل جزءاً من حياتنا بقتلنا له، وفي النهاية سنستنفد ما نمتلكه منه، ونموت، ويبقى هو ليقتل المزيد من الناس، وأحلامهم وآمالهم وطموحاتهم. كنّا نحارب ضد كائنٍ خالد في معركة الانتظار تلك.”
― جلجامش نبيل, Gilgamesh Nabeel, صراع الأقنعة

“Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity; our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“In the absence of faith, our dreams will move from feasible aspirations to implausible fantasy.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Turns out there's more than one way to achieve your dreams.”
― Katy Cannon, And Then We Ran

“Looking back, I now realize that I left home in search of all the things that were right in the very place I left.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is important to dream big. What we imagine, we become..we achieve. Even if we don ́t go the yonder, we will reach way much farther than where we currently stand.”
― Tina Sequeira, SOUL SOJOURN

“Lifting her lovely and longing face towards the inaudible chant of the sun, she drifted through her time, through space, through the concatenate cells of her unfolding self. Where to now, Abbzug? You're twenty-eight and a half years old, Abbzug. ”
― Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang

“Greater dreams come from failed chances”
― Veronica Purcell, In Anwar's Care: Reborn Legacy

“Yesterday I read, today I learn, and tomorrow l lead.”
― David Benedict Zumbo