Quotes About Aspiration

Perfection is a moving target

All men dream, all men have a dream, all men want a dream.... I have none, What shall I put in its stead? I do not know.Melancholy is my only companion, and she does not dream either.

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

It's really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what it's got. Give a man the world and he's still pining for the moon.

THE MIND OF THIS COUNTRY, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." In 1837, Emerson struck that note mainly as a rhetorical device, in a young nation obviously engaged in building up its intellectual capital.

Sometimes she wasn't even sure she existed and could not have said what her truest feelings were, or indeed where she ended or began. The girl felt she had no proper shape, no sides as it were, and she dreamed of being more fixed, more clever, of winning the admiration of brilliant unknown people. In the future, when she grew up, her life would be as beautiful as a book, peopled by interesting and fascinating things, sweeter than music or love. -- Susan Johnson, The Broken Book

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

Limited expectations yield only limited results.

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus.

banker, mayor of Frost—built their turreted

We're all stuck, a little bit, in the valley between who we want to be and who we are.

But Dani made him feel like the guy he wanted to be. Trustworthy. Honorable. She wanted him want to be more, to do anything to see respect - even love - in her eyes

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go. —FRANZ WERFEL

It's funny how just having an unobstructed view of the possible future can make you think you're capable of achieving anything.

Dream of sweet tomorrows.

School gave me wings to leave rural Pennsylvania for Philadelphia, and my diploma gave me wings to Manhattan.

what you can still dream about is often sweeter than the reality.

Work helped distract him from his morbid state of mind. The library wasn't his biggest project, but he was exhilarated by it. He approached it with a kind of freedom he had never experienced before. He believed that its design could fuse everything he had learned and loved in the visual world into a monument to things he valued most: history, books, philosophy, design, aspiration, creativity.

Sometimes what wishes do...especially the big, big wishes, is churn up all the confusion and longing that sloshes around forever inside of you.

My library is an archive of longings.

If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

The vision becomes reality. Linking talent with opportunity.

Well," she said carefully. "Someday I'd like to get married and have a family, but--" "She does," Tasha informed her uncle. "She's pretty and she makes good sandwiches. You should ask her to marry you.

Aim higher in case you fall short.