Quotes About Aspiration

but dreams on paper are never as good as the real thing.

The most important thing about having goals is having one.

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be 'undemocratic'.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Sren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

The higher they fly the harder they fall.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

Gorgeous. Gorgeous home," my mother had said. Seeing it myself, I understood why she liked visiting here so much, and why she always seemed so disappointed when she returned home to ours. It was obvious, wasn't it? Who wouldn't have wanted to trade their lives for this dream?

King Kong would have made it to the top if only he had taken the elevator.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

Economics assumes that people universally aspire to individualistic self-maximizing acquisition, so this discipline has functioned to institutionalize human greed as fundamental to the economic engine of the world system.

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

Nunca es tarde para ser lo que deberías haber sido.

It's this beautiful thing you can never reach. No matter what you do, you'll never touch it. You can only look and imagine what it would be like to hold it.

And besides, in the end, perhaps love demands marble palaces, white peacocks and swans.

Con lei pensò Yves, con insolita irritazione bisognerebbe essere sempre psicologicamente in smoking. E io, ahimè, non posso permettermelo

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