Quotes About Aspiration

I hadn't even the necessary credentials for schoolmastering - that last refuge of the unsuccessful literary man

It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

That like I best that flies beyond my reach. Set me to scale the high pyramids And thereon set the diadem of France; I'll either rend it with my nails to nought, Or mount the top with my aspiring wings, Although my downfall be the deepest hell.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

Hope is merely another face of desire. And desire is a motherfucker.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another.

Someday, he said, when I'm old and rich, I'll have my own spaceship. Just you wait.

And so he walked on from day to day studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.

I dreamed what all losers dream, about one day writing a book that would bring me fame and fortune.

Often the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself.

Aspirar a algo que no tendrás jamás, ¿es ésta la agudeza del más generoso entre los deseos?

Dreams of flying have haunted the collective imagination since time immemorial.

The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers.

C'è stato un tempo in cui ero tutto ambizione e smania di imparare, e giorno dopo giorno mi sentivo sconfortato per il fatto che madre natura in uno dei suoi momenti di clemenza non mi avesse stampato il marchio di quel genio che ogni tanto concede a qualcuno.

the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself

Jurgis had come there, and thought he was going to make himself useful, and rise and become a skilled man; but he would soon find out his error—for nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule—if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave.

men who understood the workers and how to fool them with glittering promises and then climb to power upon their shoulders.

In that country, rich or poor, a man was free... So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed.

The country had seen mighty tractors and skyscrapers...There was only one thing Russia had not seen during this thousand years: freedom.

Many people have dreams. However, a vision is a dream with a plan:

Everything in life begins as a dream. That is how the gods speak to us. First the dream and then the reality. Believe that and work for it and then the gods are on your side.