Quotes About Aspiration

The first step to success it's to imagine it

If you can imagine it, you're halfway there

I was regarded by my parents as having little musical talent other than a thin, nasal soprano voice. I was forbidden to touch my father's clarinets or saxophones, just my harmonica.

Create vivid pictures of attainable futures that are safer, friendlier, and more prosperous. Cite

We can turn our earth into a barren, lifeless minor star spinning in space, waterless, with little or no atmosphere, with not even cockroaches left on it. To face this possibility and still behave with decency; to still create beautiful things as though they will last forever; to still make music and poetry and paint pictures; to still consciously cultivate the gentler, tender side of ourselves is to aspire to a grace which makes us more than the animals we surely are.

I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

there had to be more than Louisa would ever see in her life! And when you took into account

Balzac clearly is haunted by these Faustian figures, who seek to go beyond what is permitted to ordinary humans, only to reach an impasse where their very medium of expression is blocked or destroyed.

Journalism, it turns out, is just so much hot air, hot type rather, that has an extraordinary importance at the moment but leaves nothing behind. It is the very opposite of the true poetic word that endures—what Lucien originally aspired to but betrayed

This is why Rastignac's and Lucien's tailor thinks of himself as a "hyphen" between a young man's present and his future. Given the right outfit, a young man may be able to make a marriage that will put a reality behind his social appearance.

Some dreams you chase others chase you!

And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside of them, which matched the feelings in the girls, that they were all ascending, moving into a future that could only improve them, and I wondered what it was like - the miracle, the stupidity of feeling that.

From small foundations of hope, empires can be built.

But to have dreamed the dream is to have flown above the mountains so high in all but deed.

Perfection," Inigo said, "is what we strive for; it is never what we should achieve. There is no such thing as utopia. Life by its nature is a struggle. Take that away and you take away any reason to exist.

All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebody's head

Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.

The problem of utopia is that it can only be approached across a sea of blood, and you never arrive.

Don't get your ambissions mixed up with your abilities

It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change which is important. Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents. There is no freedom from duality on this plane of existence, but one may at least aspire to choice of duality.

Mediocrity recognizes nothing higher than itself. It takes talent to appreciate genius.

May He give you the desires of your heart and make all your plans succeed.

A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.