Quotes About Aspiration

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti died on 17 February 1564. "Your greatness is measured by your horizons

I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my mantra. I assumed it was a pearl of wisdom from some great thinker, a philosopher perhaps, like Descartes. It turned out to be Walt Disney, which in no way diminishes the wisdom of the advice. Anyone who can build a Magic Kingdom deserves to be listened to.

All I've ever wanted was to go pro ever since my dad first put me in hockey when I was 7. Some of the other kids go to fancy hockey camps in the summer and practice with the best coaches, but I never could. My folks are divorced and even working two jobs, my mom could barely keep up with the rent, so my hockey fees were partly subsidized and my dad paid the rest. There was no money available to help my performance. I had to earn my chops on the ice by myself.

deep inside each one of us is the desire to write and control our own script of life.

As a doctor, when I was minister of health and would go somewhere, little girls would come up to me and say, 'I want to be like you one day, I want to be a doctor.' Now, they tell me, 'I want to be president just like you.' All of us can dream as big as we want.

Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner

If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are.

There is enough room in the sky to accommodate as many stars, to shine. Reach out there and spread the light of your talent, brilliance of your art and let this world be illumined, get MickeyMized.

A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.

Curioso ¿por qué?... Después de todo, somos los pobres los más conformes. ¡Y qué remedio, pues!... Verdá es que con eso de la escuela los que han aprendido a ler andan influenciados de cosas imposibles. Hasta mi mujer resulta a veces triste porque dice que quisiera tener alas los domingos.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock.

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

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E o segredo da vida humana, o segredo universal, o segredo raiz do qual todos os outros segredos surgem, é o desejo de mais vida, o desejo furioso e insaciável de ser tudo o mais sem nunca deixar de ser nós mesmos, de tomar posse de todo universo sem deixar que o universo se apodere de nós e nos absorva; é o desejo de ser outra pessoa sem deixar de ser eu mesmo, e continuar sendo eu mesmo ao mesmo tempo que sou outra pessoa.

And the secret of human life, the universal secret, the root secret from which all other secrets spring, is the longing for more life, the furious and insatiable desire to be everything else without ever ceasing to be ourselves, to take possession of the entire universe without letting the universe take possession of us and absorb us; it is the desire to be someone else without ceasing to be myself, and continue being myself at the same time I am someone else...

nova e luminosa, o sol batia-te por trás dos cabelos louros e tu eras mesmo a miúda de botticelli, uma Primavera transplantada da luz suave da Toscana para aquela luz dura da Argélia. Tudo, tudo, parecia ao teu alcance. Uma vida toda à tua espera, o mundo a teus pés, se o quisesses. Ou um deserto.

When adversity threatens to paralyze us, we need to reassert control by finding a new direction in which to invest psychic energy, a direction that lies outside the reach of external forces. When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free. Solzhenitsyn

Second, to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong from it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going?