Quotes About Aspiration

La sabiduría suprema es tener sueños lo bastante grandes para no perderlos de vista mientras se persiguen

All of us failed to match our dream of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

the end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it... (Sartoris)

The most difficult challenge to the ideal is its transformation into reality, and few ideals survive.

Spire stood on spire in gleaming ziggurat steps that climbed to a central golden temple tower ringed with the crazy radiator flanges of the Mongo gas stations.

The thing is---fear can't hold you any more than a dream...

Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam.

Butch: Y'know, when I was a kid, I always figured on being a hero when I grew up. Sundance: Too late now. Butch: You didn't have to say that—what'd you have to say that for?

Oh, yes. I'm terribly smart. Wouldn't it have been nice... to be intelligent?

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

I don't want to be a simile anymore," I said. "I want to be a metaphor.

Sham felt sure there was something he fervently wanted to do & to which he was excellently suited. Which made the more frustrating that he could not say what it was.

I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. "I want to be a metaphor.

Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes

We want what we might call a destination postcard—a vivid picture from the near-term future that shows what could be possible. That

It's as though the leaders aspire to create a complaint-free service rather than an extraordinary one.

tap more profound motivations.

The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.

How innocent we'd been, thinking that if only we willed something hard enough, it would come true.

My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess.