Quotes About Aspiration

Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks.

Your lot is mortal: not mortal is what you desire.

Perhaps too my name will be joined to theirs [the names of famous poets].

Never in a million years did I think I'd end up making a career out of singing. I didn't think it was possible. As far as I knew, the only way I could make any dough was to go and work in a factory, like everyone else in Aston. Or rob a f**king bank.

The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.

The only real death that ever occurs is when a dream we cherish dies

The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes.

Can you imagine doing something in your life that will be fully satisfying and redeeming for your having tried to do it, whether you succeeded in it or failed, and that, correspondingly, would be fully shameful had you not tried to do it?

He was everything I wasn't. He was a lot of what I wanted to be.

Create a story of which you will be proud.

You must see yourself as you want others to see you,

You didn't act like you were afraid. - No? Well, just watch. Come February, I'll be up for an Oscar.

You don't want me to end up like you. I have to tell you, that's always been kind of weird to me. I hope I end up like you. In fact, that's the one goal that I'm really sure about. I want to be as much like you as possible." - Tree to Piney, in one of their father-son talks.

Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

But then you can't hope for much justice in the subcontinent, where fulfillment comes to very few among the needy and restless millions, and where aspiration itself can feel like a luxury. In Kashmir, isolated and oppressed and then dragged into the larger world of competing men and nations and murderous ideologies, more people have been confronted with this awareness in the last ten years than in all of its tormented modern history.

The man form is higher than the angel form of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

for one instant, I saw the stars close enough to touch. Closer than that, part of me. Are they really so far or just that we never reach for them?

A while ago in real-time you saw the eagles. And you wished.

Hidden in my desire to become a naval aviator was something more complex: a personal engagement with the problem of violence that expressed itself at first in military fantasies and then, over a period of many years, resolved itself in the pacifism I aspire to today.

If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

Let everyone be left free not to be happy without feeling ashamed, or to be happy episodically as one sees fit. Issue no decisions, make no laws, impose nothing. If we do not want a legitimate aspiration to degenerate into a collective punishment, we must treat the pitiless idol of happiness with the most extreme disrespect.

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.