Quotes About Aspiration

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

But I would reinvent myself if I could. As a sexy leading man! We all would like that, but I don't know how to.

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

All great men are partially inspired.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in that which he seeks for his enjoyment.