Aspiration Quotes

"Soar upward on the wings of aspiration; be fearless and believe in the loftiest possibilities." - James Allen

"when we reflect upon the potential of our human life and the opportunity it affords us of attaining the highest spiritual aspiration of full enlightenment, we will realize the preciousness of our human existence, particularly that which is endowed with all favorable conditions... To attain the omniscient wisdom of the Buddha is the highest of all spiritual aspirations." - THE FOURTEENTH DALAI LAMA OF TIBET

"Our heart longings, our soul aspirations, are something more than mere vaporings of the imagination or idle dreams. They are prophecies, predictions, couriers, forerunners of things which can become realities. They are indicators of our possibilities. They measure the height of our aim, the range of our efficiency." - Orison Swett Marden

"No noble thought, no grand aspiration, desire, or divine immortal love, can come into the brain of the man of clay and settle there, except as a direct emanation from the higher to, and through, the lower Ego..." - H.P. Blavatsky

“He is an ambitious one,” say the vulgar, “when they wish to discredit the achievements of a man whose aspirations raise him above the commonplace things of life.” - Yoritomo Tashi, Founder of the first Japanese dynasty of Shoguns

"Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as a whole, each portion of which throws light on all the other, and that the tendency of all is to improve the human mind, and give it new sources of power and enjoyment … narrow minds think nothing of importance but their own favorite pursuit, but liberal views exclude no branch of science or literature, for they all contribute to sweeten, to adorn, and to embellish life … science is the pursuit above all which impresses us with the capacity of man for intellectual and moral progress and awakens the human intellect to aspiration for a higher condition of humanity." - Joseph Henry, first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

"Aspiration always tends to elevate the mind and tends to lift the mind into larger and greater fields of action. And when the mind finds itself in this larger field of action, it will naturally gain power to do greater things...It is when we lift our minds to the higher stories of the human structure that we begin to gain possession of ideas and powers through which greater things may be achieved." - Christian D. Larson

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