Quotes About Aspiration

The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for the job - he should want it more than all things, with a passion surpassing all emotion and probably even all principle.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

The sun! The sun! And all we can become And the time ripe for running to the moon!

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

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

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

Mantén tus ojos en las estrellas, y tus pies en la tierra

the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore...

La suprema sabiduría consiste en aspirar a ir a los reinos celestiales por el desprecio del mundo. Luego,

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

Happiness consists in self-application to something higher.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Almost without exception, they are men who dreamed of athletic heroism as children; becoming umpires was their compromise with their own lack of talent.

There reigns in the broken human heart a feeling of discord, a lack of congruence between what is and what ought to be (Augustine, Conf. 5).

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.