Quotes About Aspiration

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps till the legend, "over steep ways to the stars," fulfills itself.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.