Quotes About Aspiration

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'

Dreams are what keep a man going.

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect?

I do not choose to be a common man.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

Before, you were only a dream. Now you're a dream come true

It is only from the lofty height of dreams, that we may appreciate the true glory of reality.

Some people aspire to achieve, others are content with just existing. Question is - are you a sheep or a herder?

My future's about trying to be a better man.