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Quotes About Aspiration

I've been thinking about it, since you said it, " said Seivarden. No, said Mercy of Kalr. "And I've concluded that I don't want to be a captain. But I find I like the thought that I could be.
~ Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy
And there I was, a woman who yearned so hard for the sky there had to be stars in my blood, yet I was stuck in Heliodor City, missing it all.
~ Jacqueline Koyanagi, Ascension
The world turns because Man is inspired to better himself
~ Wayne Wignall, Earth and Mars
Quote from Frontiers:"Regardless of what happened, it was definitely going to be an exciting time for everyone, the day humanity first reached out to touch the stars.
~ Jeff W. Horton
What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!
~ Dr. Vivencio Ballano
you never know your true genius untill you do what you love
~ Wouter Van Gastel
When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.
~ Michael Chabon
I got into acting so that I could meet girls. Pretty girls came later. First, I wanted to start off with someone with two legs, who'd smile at me and look soft.
~ Dustin Hoffman
It is a great day anytime I can bring a smile to a girl or boy, knowing that I am helping to inspire them to always dream big.
~ Normani Kordei
The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.
~ Eric Hoffer
A society without its dreamers can never be free.
~ Yehudi Menuhin
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
~ zusak markus iv
Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.
~ zweig stefan
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.
~ zweig stefan ii
For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?
~ A. Manette Ansay
Trying to build my dreams with what I have now, it's like building a forty-five story house with thirty-four bricks. (DoubleDuce.)
~ Aaron Cometbus
What point was there in living if you didn't at least try to be as cool as your heroes? p. 6, Double Duce
~ Aaron Cometbus
I feel like a tent that wants to be a kite, tugging at my stakes.
~ Abigail Thomas
What is this longing, she will want to ask. This troubling feeling of more to come. You can make something out of it, I want to tell her. But that's what her life is for.
~ Abigail Thomas
The grand premise of religion is that man is able to surpass himself; that man who is part of this world may
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
The mystic experience is man's turning toward God; the prophetic act is God's turning toward man. The former is first of all an event in the life of man, contingent on the aspiration and initiative of man; the latter is first of all an event in the life of God, contingent on the pathos and initiative of God. From the mystic experience we may gain an insight of man into the life of God; from the prophetic act we learn of an insight of God into the life of man.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
~ Abraham Lincoln