Quotes About Aspiration

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

Literature is my Utopia

The value of doing something does not lie in the ease or difficulty, the probability or improbability of its achievement, but in the vision, the plan, the determination and the perseverance, the effort and the struggle which go into the project. Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation.

the fact that I was dreaming of retirement at the age of 33 was probably an indicator that something had to change. I

4You prepare your mind for it only to the extent of recognizing that you want it above all else. 5It is not necessary that you do more; indeed, it is necessary that you realize that you cannot do more.

it's about conveying the image of where you want to be, not where you are.

For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to.

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.

Dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Sans doute une chute est toujours une chute, mais autre chose est de se laisser choir dans un puits parce qu'on regardait n'importe où ailleurs, autre chose y tomber parce qu'on visait une étoile. C'est bien une étoile que Don Quichotte contemplait.

Je m'en faisais une belle image, moi, de la liberté. Un truc sacré, presque, un truc dont on fait des statues.

At the age of eight, I still dreamed of being granted plant status.

give yourself permission to dream, to be totally unrealistic. (Richard Bolles says, "One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh, come now, be realistic.' ")

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

If music thus carries us to heaven, it is because music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.

The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

For looking down the ladder of our deeds, The rounds seem slender: all past work appears Unto the doer faulty: the heart bleeds, And pale Regret comes weltering in tears, To think how poor our best has been, how vain, Beside the excellence we would attain.

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.