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Quotes About Aspiration

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.
~ W. H. Auden
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
~ Walt Whitman
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.
~ William Shakespeare
I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.
~ Albert Camus
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.
~ Ayn Rand
We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts.
~ Bill Johnson
Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.
~ Robert Palmer
I always wanted to play a big, black man, but that would cost too much make-up.
~ Robin Williams
The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside.
~ Roger Ebert
He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun
~ Rumi
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
~ Seneca the Younger
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
~ William Greenough Thayer Shedd
I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.
~ Jackie Chan
Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.
~ John Webster
What one man can think, another man can do.
~ Jules Verne
I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!
~ Ken Kesey
For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.
~ Khalil Gibran
Some must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when might comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams.
~ Clinton Scollard
I never had ambition to become president of the state or to accomplish more than men.
~ Dalia Grybauskaite
A man has a right to want to live.
~ Dalia Sofer
Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.
~ E. W. Scripps
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
~ Elbert Hubbard
At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.
~ Gloria Steinem