Quotes About Aspiration

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

Happiness is having a dream you cannot let go of and a partner who would never ask you to.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

A film is born in my head. I try to make it, but I never succeed. What I want to do is impossible. It's beyond my capacity.

Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.

That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.

All we have willed or hoped or dreamed of good shall exist.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Look not thou down but up!

What I aspired to be,And was not, comforts me.

Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:And straight was a path of gold for him,And the need of a world of men for me.

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do!

That far land we dream about,Where every man is his own architect.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be,Nor am I even the thing I could be.

Hope Springs Exulting on Triumphant Wing.

[Ambitious men] may not cease, but as a dog in a wheel, a bird in a cage, or a squirrel in a chain, so Budaeus compares them; they climb and climb still, with much labour, but never make an end, never at the top.