Youth, Dreams & Ambition quotes for UPSC & State PCS

Hitch your wagon to a star.

A man is what he wills himself to be.

Small aim is a crime, have a great aim.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

Arise, awake and Stop not till the Goal is Reached.

The young are life, and there is no hope but in them.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve.

That what we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

If you want to shine like a star, first you have to burn like a star.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.

People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Dream is not that which you see while sleeping; it is something that does not let you sleep.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

It is ambition, but a generous ambition, that seeks to improve one's status without harm to others.

Move from apathy to action. Aim at becoming better than me. Luck will favour those who are prepared

If thy aim be great and thy means small, still act; for by action alone these can increase to thee.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.

The main contribution one can make as a student to one's country in peace or wartime is to study hard and effectively.

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big.

No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.

I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.

Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand for victory will be ours.

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist – someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular one.

If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon, don't smile contemptuously upon its quest. Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. … Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

If India is to survive, she must be made young again. Rushing and billowing streams of energy must be poured into her; her soul must become, as it was in the old times, like the surges, vast, puissant, calm or turbulent at will, an ocean of action or of force.

You are not here merely to prepare to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.

I appeal to all pupils, students and young people, asking you to focus on the horizons that are opening up for you, and which you could only dream of a year ago. Our future will depend on your desire for education and moral values as well as on your entrepreneurial spirit.

Doors are opening now that were not open in the past, and the great challenge facing minority groups is to be ready to enter these doors as they open. No greater tragedy could befall us at this hour but that of allowing new opportunities to emerge with out the concomitant preparedness to meet them.

The word impossible is not French.

Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.

There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.

A journey of a thousand [miles] starts with a single step.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.

We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

Nothing great is done without great men, and they are great because they wanted it.

A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

It's up to you now, and we shall help you — that my past does not become your future.

Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great. (Verse 290)

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

Everyone had something unique to offer in life and their responsibility was to develop those gifts - and heroes come from all backgrounds.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Very often when we have found ourselves forever separated from what we had intended to achieve, we have already, on our way, found something else worth desiring.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfillment.

A time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it.

We must build on the resources represented by our young professionals and by our nation’s farmers. Without their involvement, we cannot succeed. With their involvement we can not fail.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinions. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.

For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.

The concept of the well-adjusted personality or of good adjustment sets a low ceiling upon the possibility for advancement and for growth. The cow, the slave, the robot may all be well adjusted.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. The most essential step in the marketing of personal services is that of selecting an occupation into which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force. It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn. (233)

For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great — not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud — but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute for war's disciplinary function, no moral equivalent of war, analogous, as one might say, to the mechanical equivalent of heat, so long they fail to realize the full inwardness of the situation.

Because much has been given to you, therefore we have a right to expect much from you; and we have a right to expect that you shall begin to give that much just as soon as you leave school and go to college, so that you shall count when you are there.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

It is the coward and the fool who says, This is my fate – so says the Sanskrit proverb. But it is the strong man who stands up and says, I will make my own fate. It is people who are getting old who talk of fate. Young men generally do not come to astrology.

We see young leaders who embrace the diversity of this region not as a weakness, but as a strength, and who realize that even though we are all individually different and come from different traditions and different communities, we're stronger when we work together.

Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.

Compromise is an essential weapon which has to be wielded every now and then as the struggle develops. But the thing that we must keep always before us is the idea of the movement. We must always maintain a clear notion as to the aim for the achievement of which we are fighting.

We are deeply concerned, both in our country and here, of the very large number of dropouts by schoolchildren. This is a very disturbing situation, because the youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow... try as much as possible to remain in school, because education is the most powerful weapon which we can use.