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Quotes About Aspiration

En vérité, l'homme est l'être le plus curieux du monde, murmura-t-il. Il voudrait voler comme un aigle mais il n'a pas ses ailes. Il voudrait avoir la force du lion, mais il n'a pas ses pattes. Comme tu l'as créé terriblement incomplet, Seigneur ! Et en prime, tu lui as donné l'intelligence et le pouvoir de connaître ses faiblesses.
~ Unknown
No matter: Man always hopes; Life always hopes. When a definite object cannot be outlined, the indomitable spirit of hope still impels the living mass to move toward something--something that shall somehow be better. What
~ Voltairine de Cleyre
The Cloths of Heaven Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light; I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~ W. B. Yeats
Success is achieved by those who try.
~ W. Clement Stone
begin to determine what you really want in the distant, intermediate, and near future.
~ W. Clement Stone
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
~ W. Clement Stone
Keep your mind off the things you don't want by keeping it on the things you do want.
~ W. Clement Stone
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
~ W. H. Auden
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...
~ W. S. Gilbert
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Thread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~ W.B. Yeats
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." - William Butler Yeats, He Wishes For The Cloth of Heaven.
~ W.B. Yeats
No woman loves me, no man seeks my help, Because I be not of the things I dream.
~ W.B. Yeats
She pulled the thread and bit the thread And made a golden gown, And wept because she'd dreamt that I Was born to wear a crown.
~ W.B. Yeats
I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~ W.B. Yeats
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." ( Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven )
~ W.B. Yeats
Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.
~ W.H. Auden
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
~ W.H. Auden
I dream of things that never were
~ Unknown
The gods are what has failed to become of us
~ W.S. Merwin
I'm hoping that people should hopefully give me another chance to dream big and to deliver on those dreams.
~ Tom DeLonge
I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.
~ Susan Boyle
I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.
~ Mick Taylor
I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.
~ Richard Ernst