Quotes About Aspiration

Great hopes make great men.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

But knowledge to their eyes her ample pageRich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll;Chill penury repress'd their noble rage,And froze the genial current of the soul.

I decided that there was perhaps no ash quite so cold as the one left by an unrealized ambition...

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

We spend our waking moments," he said at last, "trying to be successful, because we can't think of anything else to do.

H. L. Mencken once felt compelled to offer a friendly piece of advice to William Saroyan. "I note what you say about your aspiration to edit a magazine," said the man only a few years removed from guiding the groundbreaking American Mercury. "I am sending you by this mail a six-chambered revolver. Load it and fire every one into your head. You will thank me after you get to Hell and learn from other editors how dreadful their job was on earth.

Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it—freedom, not reason—to pursue his plans for the future.

If there were dreams to sell,What would you buy?Some cost a passing-bell;Some a light sigh.

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

Overwhelming and astounding inequality, especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes the envious to think: 'I might have been in his place.' "30

If he were not as he is, he would be better than himself.

He that climbs highest had the greatest fall.

We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Tomorrow Is Just A Dream Away

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..

We must just keep on and on until the mountains themselves crumble from nausea or we learn to scale them and cool our hands in the sky.

If you can't stand the way this place is take yourself to higher places