Quotes About Aspiration

There was something wonderfully hopeful about his general air, and something that at the same time whispered to me he would never be very successful or rich.

He was a mere child in the world, but he didn't cry for the moon.

There's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they're not a-going—none of 'em—ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon.

Go and be somethingological directly.

I wanted to make Joe less ignorant and common, that he might be worthier of my society and less open to Estella's reproach.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

To drink the sunshine and to dream at night...

My mother held the ladder for me to climb to the stars.

Pitch your tents toward the sunrising!

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

If wishes would prevail with me, My purpose should not fail with me...

If the good Lord had wanted people to stay on the ground, he would have given us roots.

Retirou-se. A humilhação atenuou-se pouco a pouco e morreu. Precisava entrar em casa, jantar, dormir. E precisava crescer, ficar tão grande como Fabiano, matar cabras a mão de pilão, trazer uma faca de ponta à cintura. Ia crescer, espichar-se numa cama de varas, fumar cigarros de palha, calçar sapatos de couro cru.

Because society places a value on masculinity, gay men aspire to it. If you go to a gay club and the doorman says, 'You do realise this is a gay club, don't you lads?' you get all excited because you think, 'Wow, he thought I was straight!'

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.

You have given them an ideal to aspire to, embodied their highest aspirations. They will race, and stumble, and fall and crawl....and curse....and finally.... They will join you in the sun, Kal-El. They will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time you will help them accomplish wonders.

Without love and a dream it would never come true...

parvenus, relied on money of questionable antecedents

We shall pursue our dreams "until [we] reach[…] it. Or fail[…] trying.

But what you're trying to do is much more difficult than climbing K2

Envision someone else, someone better than you. Stronger. Smarter. Tougher. Then do what that guy would do.

What had he hoped for back then? What kind of future had he dreamed of when he'd stared up at the lightning-fork crack in the ceiling?