Quotes About Aspiration

Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.

And although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

E embora valha muito a pena ter ambições, elas não são conquistadas a pouco custo: demandam seu quinhão de trabalho e abnegação, ansiedade e desânimo.

I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

I dreamt of worldly success once.

Heaven knows, it's not the way it could be.

I definitely want to record an album, direct a film and start my own religion.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.

Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul.

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be 'undemocratic'.

I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything

You are destined to become the peer of those you most respect because the greatness you perceive in them is your own.

The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.

Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.

Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.