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Quotes About Aspiration

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.
~ James Boswell
Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.
~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
It is always better to imitate a successful man than to envy him.
~ Napoleon Hill
Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
~ Gloria Steinem
Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.
~ Gish Jen
Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.
~ Andrew Carnegie
There is nothing more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
~ Joe Strummer
Aspire to be the man you pretend to be when you're trying to get laid.
~ Joe Rogan
A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
~ Truman Capote
The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before
~ Joshua Chamberlain
The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.
~ Ronald Reagan
From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
~ Gregory Maguire
Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.
~ Louis Kahn
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
~ Juvenal
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
~ Abraham Maslow
Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.
~ Melvin B. Tolson
If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.
~ Liam Neeson
One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.
~ Oscar Micheaux
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.
~ Romain Rolland
Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.
~ Paul Eluard