Quotes About Aspiration

There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration. To be conscious that we possess decided ability for some particular calling, and to be compelled by circumstances, year after year, to be chained to drudgery which the heart loathes, requires supreme courage.

Phillips Brooks used to say that after a man has once discovered that he has been living but a half-life the other half will haunt him until he releases it, and he never again will be content to live a half-life.

The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price. Success is on sale in the world market place. All who are willing to pay the price can buy it.

LIVE UPWARD. Do what thou dost as if the stake were heaven, And this thy last deed ere the judgment day. If you wish to reach the highest begin at the lowest.

no man will ever be willing to live a half-life when he has once seen that it is a half-life.

it is always what we want, not what we have, that claims our attention.

It is to what you see, to what you believe, to what you struggle incessantly to attain, that you will approximate.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there.

Maybe I will do what I want with my life! The only problem is that I have no idea what I want to do with it.

Because these fools always look up for power. People above you, they never want to share power with you. Why you look to them? They give you nothing. People below you, you give them hope, you give them respect, they give you power, cause they don't think they have any, so they don't mind giving it up.

If you had any brains, you'd be in a real career, like selling life insurance.

He was a soldier, and if anyone had asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wouldn't have known what they meant.

In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say 'Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it!' To which I reply 'Well, why? It's already a book.

The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilled enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

talent. Potential. Great potential

Those two people in the back of the boat, he felt kind of sorry for them. They still lived in the drowned city, they belonged down there, and the fact that they couldn't go there broke their hearts. But not Deaver. His city wasn't even built yet. His city was tomorrow.

you'll dream, too.>

You only covet what you do not have.' Who said that?" "You did," said Han Fei-tzu. "Some say, 'what you cannot have.' Others say, 'what you should not have.' I say, 'You can truly covet only what you will always hunger for.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.