Aspirations Quotes

“Sometimes to change a situation you are in requires you to take a giant leap. But, you won't be able to fly unless you are willing to transform.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“You were born with your head in the clouds,
your future wide open,
feeling almost weightless. Almost.

Kudoclasm.

You had dreams even before you had memories:
a cloud of fantasies and ambitions
of secret plans and hidden potential,
visions of who you are,
and what your life will be.

They keep your spirits high,
floating somewhere above your life,
where the world looks faintly hypothetical,
almost translucent.

But every time you reach for the sky
and come away with nothing,
you start to wonder what’s holding them up.
“Surely it would have happened by now?!”

You feel time starting to slip,
pulling you back down to earth.
even as you tell yourself,
don’t look down.

You don’t have the luxury of floating through life,
because you may not have the time.
The future is already rushing toward you,
and it’s not as far away as you think.

It feels like your life is flashing before your eyes,
but it’s actually just the opposite:
you’re thinking forward, to everything you still haven’t done,
the places you had intended to visit,
the life goals you’d eventually get around to,
some day in the future.

You start dropping your delusions one by one,
like tossing ballast overboard.
And soon the fog lifts,
and everything becomes clear—
right until the moment your feet touch the ground.

And there it is, “the real world.”
As if you’ve finally grown up, steeped in reality,
your eyes adjusting to the darkness,
seeing the world for what it is.
But in truth, you don’t belong there.
We dream to survive—
no more optional than breathing.
Maybe “the real world” is just another fantasy,
something heavy to push back against,
and launch ourselves still higher.

We’re all afraid to let go,
of falling into a bottomless future.
But maybe we belong in the air,
tumbling in the wind.
Maybe it’s only when you dive in
that you pick up enough speed
to shape the flow of reality,
and choose your own course,
flying not too high, and not too low,
but gliding from one to the other
in long playful loops.

To dream big,
and bounce ideas against the world
and rise again.

Moving so fast,
you can’t tell where the dream ends
and where the world begins.”
― The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

“A world full of "certainties"
All the plans, all the vanities.
Where black covers the white
Suited in "confidence"- the constant fight.
A million roads I dream to take
One destination, knowing not I turn where.
A green veil covers for two years, some two decades.
But the "plan" awaits, new roads to make.
I pant, I struggle, I do my best
While they say,
"You are, dear, but so inadequate".”
― Sanhita Baruah

“Life is cold, but I will put on my clothes and wear my shoes”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Be willing for purpose; it pays huge returns on investment. And along the journey, those who dis your willing sacrifice(s) will ponder their own foolishness.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“...for every Aretha, there's a chorus of cat-stranglers.”
― Bill Eisele

“The change we want is within us and shall always be within us; the change we can have is in the steps we can take to realize the change we want. Take a step if you want a change!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Aspirations forms the plot of success.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Here we go then," Dad says. "Motoring towards our dreams, Bridge."
"You shouldn't follow dreams," Grandma announces.
"Why?" I ask her.
"Because it's a road paved with disappointments, that's why. People should get on with what they've blinking well got at home."
"You can't tell people what their dreams are meant to be."
"I can. But they never listen, do they?”
― Joanna Campbell, Tying Down the Lion

“[What do you want to be when you grow up?] "A wrecker of civilizaton”
― Sasha Grey

“The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“Get in touch with your inner most desire and aspirations, then utilise the power of your heart to create a life of bliss.”
― Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind

“To aspire is to go back to the start of the journey when you're one lap away from the finish line, we have to begin with the end in mind and dig for for the opium goals.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“For several people the challenge with the dream isn't bread & butter but the luxury.”
― Santosh Avvannavar, God's Table: The Last Supper

“The World will not Change unless You Change the World.”
― Taitusi Williams Savou

“When you strip away all the layers one by one, not much remains to “discover.” You will never find real meaning among your selfish interests, feelings, and aspirations. The answers do not lie within you.”
― James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

“Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A team's inspiration comes from individuals' aspirations. The combined quality of individual passions makes a team's impact to excel. When you are in a team, play a part!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Just like the cast of a great movie and the career of great athletes few success stories are a one man show. Build your team and grow.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the ‘impossible’ that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I were to be brutally honest with myself, how often is my journey actually a path designed to circumvent my journey?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“I may never be rich or famous but I've created a whole world, where anything I want is possible what more could anyone want to achieve?”
― B.B. Taylor

“Capture the essence of your aspirations by understand the true meaning of your intuitive thoughts.”
― Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind

“What is an adventure, I might ask? And in the asking, I might begin to understand that my adventures are sorely limited to the confines of my lackluster imagination. Therefore, an adventure of the most robust and wild sort must be constructed by an unlimited imagination. And unless I am mistaken, only God has an imagination like that.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The human animal needs something to aspire to, somewhere to go and something to do.”
― Jamey Glasnovic, Lost and Found: Adrift in the Canadian Rockies

“What life can you create when those activities spent “killing” or “wasting” time were put into the quest for a better you? What would your life be like if instead of “chilling and net flicks” you devoted time to wellness and thinking? A much better life awaits you with some simple choices, backed by intentional actions.”
― Tony Curl, Seriously Simple Stuff to Get You Unstuck