Quotes About Aspiration

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

Every man's entitled to hope.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

The man I want to be could easily beat me up.

Man's worst tragedy in life is his failure to reach his greatest potential

The soul of man was made to walk the skies.

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.

Nature attains perfection, but man never does.

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

A man's soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific.

It would not be better if men got what they wanted.

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

In all of my movies I've tried to address the need for man - not just Cubans - to have a dream and to fight for that dream, even when he doesn't achieve it. It's a form of happiness.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.