Quotes About Aspiration

Nice work if you can get it,And you can get it if you try.

focus on what could be rather than on what might have been.

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There's always something just ahead.

wanted life, but deep in her heart of hearts she only wanted

Then I can sit in the film café from morning till night, all year round. Some day they will discover me as a starved corpse to use as an extra.

I've known for ages that men and women are animals by nature, I've also known that we have a sacred duty to make something different of ourselves, and I still believe that we have the strength and the chance to be more than we are. Through ourselves? Despite ourselves? Doesn't matter, I still believe…

Padre nostro che sei nei cieli, concedimi una buona istruzione, fa' questo miracolo, al resto ci penso da sola con un po' di rimmel».

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself "spiritually" the underdog. Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed.

And I believe the Russian people will soon be drawn to the south, to the sea and the sun.

Business is therapy for the dreamers.

My purpose on this planet is to live up to my potential, everything else just adds to the experience.

But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer.

In your eyes I see myself become what I always dreamed I could be.

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible.

By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.

The only books I recognize as mine are those I must still write.

Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement.

Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveller recognises the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

if you ask an inhabitant of Zenobia to describe his vision of a happy life, it is always a city like Zenobia that he imagines […], a Zenobia perhaps quite different, a-flutter with banners and ribbons, but always derived by combining elements of that first model.

La letteratura vive solo se si pone degli obbiettivi smisurati, anche al di là d'ogni possibilità di realizzazione.