Quotes About Aspiration

all looking up at the windows of J. P. Morgan & Co.

Ambition was reckless if inspired by purely selfish motives but laudable if guided by great principles

To the young American Ã¢â'¬Â¦ the paths to fortune are innumerable and all open;

Potts aspired to be Rockefeller's equal.

Hamilton did not know it, but he just wrote himself out of poverty.

key. I need to move up into Duke's job. Then I'll be top boy on Beck's side. Then I'll

G. K. Chesterton once said of Charles Dickens, "Dickens didn't write what people wanted. Dickens wanted what people wanted.

expensive silk jacket, ambitious.

average height would want

I guess I can dream. Hope dies last, right?

Morir en el intento

Books Can Fuel Your Dreams!

Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to draw every last bit of strength from the exalted notions I nursed about myself.

From my first breath in this world, all I wanted was a good set of lungs and air to fill them with... p 1

And who doesn't long for the door in the air.

We all dream of finding but what's wrong with looking?

As Francis Schaeffer reminded us, "The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Todo ser humano y toda sociedad es lo que es en virtud de su máxima aspiración. La ciudad, si es sana, aspira no a las leyes que puede deshacer del mismo modo en que las hizo, sino a las leyes no escritas, la ley divina, los dioses de la ciudad. La ciudad debe trascenderse a sí misma. ...El factor más importante concierne a lo que trasciende la ciudad o que es más grande que la ciudad; no concierne a cosas que están simplemente subordinadas a la ciudad.

Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

He did not believe, in his wildest moments, that he would ever see Palestine, nor did he believe his children would ever see Palestine. But he did believe in the idea.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

Hoping never done nothing. It wanting that do it. You got to want to win so bad you can taste it. If you want to win bad enough you win.

in 1904 he applied for a promotion from patent clerk third class to patent clerk second class and was turned down.