Quotes About Aspiration

What a man wishes, he will believe.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

The mighty hopes that make us men.

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

To have infinite oceanic horizons! This is what a man needs to reach the unreachable.

If a man knows what he wants, then he is in a position to decide that he will get it. This is faith. The determined decision of a man with desire.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities.

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

How could a man become a god? Nell asked. By living in an extremely pragmatic society, said Constable Moore after some thought

He was an unformed block, from which he was now laboring, literally, to sculpt a Renaissance Man. Reader, that was an attractive thing to watch.

All change happens because one man wants something different.

He is sure that this would elevate his stature beyond that of dull software boy.

Suppose all of that comes to pass, Sophia, and you get that job and embark on that career. Twenty years from now, how will you know if you have succeeded?

Your potential is unlimited in all that you've chosen to do.

1. How is it possible that 6.9 billion people can all claim to want the same thing (peace, security, opportunity, prosperity, happiness, and love) and be singularly unable to get it?

They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it.

I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.