Quotes About Aspiration

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

Satisfaction may be the goal of the common man, but it is the enemy of greatness.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.

You want success on different levels. I wouldn't be honest if I said I don't look over there in the pop world and say, "Man, that's attractive" - Adele selling 100,000 albums a week. A week.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.