Quotes About Aspiration

Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree.

who aimeth at the sky, Shoots higher than he that means a tree.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

Tis only right he say that every man should own his own piece o' land at some time or other. 'Tis the ambition of every man to do that same said thing, an' he say it ain't only poor, simple people like you an' me, but 'tis the way the big folks think too.

Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.

When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.

Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell.

To be at peace with a troubled world: this is not a reasonable aim. It can be achieved only through a disavowal of what surrounds you. To be at peace with yourself within a troubled world: that, by contrast, is an honourable aspiration.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

Me, I only try. I'm not one like Moses, or Solon—or, or—Lycurgus.

If I try for something less I may in the end attain something more

I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.

We all dream of things we cannot have.

Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Knight instead.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.

Sometimes there is truth in dreams.

I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen.

Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

Jon Snow had dreamed of leading men to glory just as King Daeron had, of growing up to be a conqueror. Now he was a man grown and the Wall was his, yet all he had were doubts. He could not even seem to conquer those.

Every boy dreams of serving in the Kingsguard.