Quotes About Aspiration

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

to cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand army, to conquer the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what greater thing is there?' 'To be free', said Combeferre.

Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence.

Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the hearts of men.

Do we ever realize our fondest dreams?

Rien n'est tel que le dogme pour enfanter le rêve. Et rien n'est tel que le rêve pour engendrer l'avenir. Utopie aujourd'hui, chair et os demain.

Every skull-cap may dream of the tiara.

Every skull-cap may dream of the tiara. The priest is nowadays the only man who can become a king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king.

Misery, we repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.

Ceux qui vivent, ce sont ceux qui luttent ; ce sont Ceux dont un dessein ferme emplit l'âme et le front. Ceux qui d'un haut destin gravissent l'âpre cime. Ceux qui marchent pensifs, épris d'un but sublime.

Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At

composed of all the innocence of the present, and of all the passion of the future.

Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.

Every time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than of the clouds of heaven.

Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye.

Let us live, by all means. But let us try to ensure that death is a progress. Let us aspire to worlds that are less dark. Let us follow the conscience that leads us there.

Cometer la menor cantidad de pecados posibles es la ley del hombre. No cometer ninguno es el sueño del ángel.