Quotes About Aspiration

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

I grew up in New York wanting to be like those funny men in the movies and on the radio.

It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.

The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money.

Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.