Quotes About Aspiration

Each man dreams his own heaven.

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

I can't sing. Never been able to sing. I can't do voices very well. Every impression I do sounds the same. I can't dunk. Man, would I give anything to dunk. Just once.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.

Books are not men and yet they are alive. They are man's memory and his aspiration, the link between his present and his past, the tools he builds with.

I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.

The man who will be the future of the WWE. He will be right under me. He is the man, he is the myth, he is the legend, soon to be.. he is, Alex Riley.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.