Quotes About Aspiration

All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

Catherine Deneuve is the man I've always wanted to be.

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be.

You aspire to be as great as Michael Jackson is as an artist. I don't think any artist in pop, rock or hip-hop has ever done it any bigger than him. You know what I mean? He's the man.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.