Quotes About Aspiration

Yet the higher a man climbs the further he has to fall.

Even dreams cannot live up here.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

If I had wings, I would want to fly too,

Gods forbid they glimpse me near the high seat of the Arryns, they might think that I mean to sit in it. Cheeks born so low as mine must never aspire to such lofty cushions.

Dreams are what we have.

It doesn't matter what we want, once we get it, then we want something else." - Lord Baelish

Now he could go anywhere, associate with anybody, be anything he wanted to be.

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

Sin is the failure to reach your potential," he wrote. "Guilt is the unlived life.

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one's own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one's inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

Un virus de insatisfacción vive en la esperanza.

Science fiction is more than just our collective dreams for a human race that reaches to the stars. In many ways, the dreams of yesterday are becoming the realities of today and the path for tomorrow.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

young—never settle for less than the spiritual and moral grandeur of which you're capable, with the help of God's grace.

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.

Like a woman, possibility makes demands, makes a person go all the way.

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

imagination in looking to the future. Memory is the ground of dreaming.

Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.