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Quotes About Aspiration

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.
~ H. Rider Haggard
If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
~ Henry David Thoreau
It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.
~ Horace
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.
~ Hugh Walpole
I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
~ Jack Kerouac
Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .
~ James Branch Cabell
The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.
~ James Branch Cabell
I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.
~ Jo Brand
Man's restlessness makes him strive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.
~ John Donne
Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.
~ John Heywood
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
~ Travis Barker
I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.
~ Leah LaBelle
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!
~ Pixie Lott
I would like to have a family someday, and I can't wait to be a stay-at-home mom.
~ Stacy Keibler
I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.
~ Tony Dungy
When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.
~ Jenny McCarthy
Theater is the only thing I always came back to. When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, "Well, okay. You can try."
~ Liana Liberato