Motivational Quotes About Aspiration and Life

Tuesday 16 December 2008

When you read a quotation from some enlightened author, you’re getting right down into their best material. There’s no need to sift through hours of pages in order to find the best ; the best is in the quote!

This is why I’ve spent years reading of quotations. Can you imagine the wisdom a person can get from that? Sure, you often have to read boring , but every little while you’ll run into a real good one! And when this happens, your mind is stretched, your eyes are opened, and it can become an amazing intellectual or spiritual experience. And then you start over, because it becomes addictive.

Here are ten motivational based on the topics of aspiration and life that I have always loved. Take the time to dig through them and glean the great lessons that they hold.

1. When a sets out to learn something of his own free will, he marks himself out as an exceptional man. And he begins to rise in the world. -Herbert N. Casson

2. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in as we are desirous of living do we really live. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

3. It is asked, how can the laboring man find time for self-culture? I answer that an earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden . A man who follows his calling with industry and spirit, and uses his economically, will always have some portion of the day at command. And it is astonishing how fruitful of improvement a short season becomes when eagerly seized and faithfully used. It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of . -Channing

4. Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a . -Thomas Edison

5. I am suffocated and when I have not the bright feeling of progression. -Margaret Fuller

6. I know of no more encouraging fact than the ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious . It is something to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful. It is far more glorious to carve and paint the very and medium through which we look. This morally we can do. -Thoreau

7. What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a ? -Emerson

8. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. . -Mark Twain

9. If one advances confidently in the direction of his , and to live the life which he imagined, he will meet with a unexpected in common hours. In as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. -Thoreau

10. 1) quietly for a moment, and you realize how you have been foolishly about.
2) Learn to keep your mouth shut, and you realize you have been talking too much.
3) Avoid getting involved in too , and you realize that you have been in unnecessary things.
4) Close the door, and you realize that you have been mixed up with too many kinds of .
5) Have few , and you realize why you have had so many ills.
6) Be , and you realize that you have been too critical of others. -Chen Chiju (1588-1639)

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