Quotes About Aspiration

I have brightness in my soul, which strains toward Heaven. I am like a bird!

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

The birds can fly, An' why can't I?

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

My generation of Canadians grew up believing that, if we were very good or very smart, or both, we would some day graduate from Canada.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.

This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

I was born to other things.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it.

There is only one big thing-desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.

Energy is equal to desire and purpose.

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.

Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do, and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.

Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.

If a man wants his dreams to come true, he must wake them up.