Quotes About Aspiration

If one only aspires to provide a growing number of persons with a growing number of goods, without worrying about the quality of the persons, or of the goods, then capitalism is the perfect solution.

All life "colonizes." Everything that lives aspires to live infinitely. Nothing spontaneously limits itself. No harmony is the result of mutual respect or reciprocal restraint; harmony stems from hostile interventions and the temporary balance of forces.

Frustration is the distinctive psychological characteristic of democratic society. Where all may legitimately aspire to the summit, the entire pyramid is an accumulation of frustrated individuals.

Man tends to exercise all his powers. The impossible seems to him the only legitimate limit. A civilized man, however, is one who for various reasons refuses to do everything he can.

To write for posterity* is not to worry whether they will read us tomorrow. It is to aspire to a certain quality of writing. Even when no one reads us. *Posterity is not the whole of future generations. It is a small group of men with taste, a proper upbringing, and erudition, in each generation.

There are fewer ambitious individuals in the world today than individuals who believe they are morally obliged to be ambitious.

Humanity longs to free itself from poverty, from toil, from war—from everything which few escape without degrading themselves.

The reactionary does not aspire to turn back, but rather to change direction.

Among the vices of democracy one must count the impossibility of someone occupying an important position there without it being his ambition.

Reason, truth, justice, tend not to be man's goals, but the names he gives to his goals.

Don't you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we'd be happy if we did?

I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding.

Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.

I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'

I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.

Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.

What if you could be anything or anybody you choose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

May the future you create exceed your fondest expectations.

In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I've seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.

A core part of my story is that I always wanted more and I will never settle for anything less."

If a dream is in your heart, you never lose it.

Forget who I really am, who I really want to be.

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.

Every man first wish is if all wishes will be reality