Quotes About Aspiration

Come up here, you dream people. You're cloud-gazing. Have a look at something else than vapor.

Ambition — What will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.

Don't quit your day dream.

Dreams are foreign lands within the bounds of our own minds.

My dreams leap — dancers of the night, reaching heights unknown to the day.

If you've climbed the jutting trees to your lofty goal, you've far outdone the unscathed ladder climbers.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Surely no child, and few adults, have ever watched a bird in flight without envy.

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Dreams are as powerful as swords.

Hope is the silver lining of dreams.

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather be a streaming meteor than a sleepy and permanent planet. I would rather burn out in a blaze of streaming glory than be stifled like dry rot. I shall use my time.

Rise from the mud, let the sunshine clense your eyes, and thrust your shoulders into the stars!

He had hitched his wagon to a star and been landed in a pestiferous marsh.

But I ain't got to the point yet. Here it is. I want to make my way to the kind of life you have in this house. There's more in life than booze, an' hard work, an' knockin' about. Now, how am I goin' to get it? Where do I take hold an' begin? I'm willin' to work my passage.

Youth which lives by hope is riven by unrest.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. —Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams, 1816

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others," he

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others," he told them.

By naming the parshah after Korach, the Torah endorses his commendable traits of aspiring to higher goals and of seeking immediate redemption. These are timeless goals for all of us, even while retaining the caution of our limitations on the practical level.

There would be love, and while it was mine, I could cling to it. I could rejoice -- in life, in the existence of love. In the existence of people like Phedre and Joscelin. Although the standards they set were impossibly high, still, I could rejoice that such courage and compassion existed in the world. I could hope and aspire.

Gli eroi mi davano la nausea. Una volta, avevo voluto essere uno di loro. Avevo covato sogni gloriosi di diventare un eroe dello stesso stampo di cui credevo Joscelin fosse fatto. Avevo perso quelle illusioni molto tempo fa, ma non avevo capito fino ad ora che eroismo significa vivere nel terrore di non essere in grado di proteggere coloro che ami.