Quotes About Aspiration

I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.

Needless to say, the ideal will never in fact be realized.

La mayoría de los hombres y las mujeres llevan vidas tan pobres y limitadas en el mejor, que el afán de escapar, el ansia de trascender de sí mismo aunque sólo sea por breves momentos es, y ha sido siempre, uno de los principales apetitos del alma

El afán de trascender del autoconsciente es, como he dicho, un principal apetito del alma.

Amma mÉ™n rahatl?q istÉ™mirÉ™m. MÉ™n Tanr? istÉ™yirÉ™m, poeziya istÉ™yirÉ™m, hÉ™qiqÉ™t istÉ™yirÉ™m, azadl?q istÉ™yirÉ™m, yax??l?q istÉ™yirÉ™m. MÉ™n günah istÉ™yirÉ™m.

It must here be explained that my innate diffidence forbade me to aspire to the Grade of Magus in any full sense. Such beings appear only in every two thousand years or so.

Bien hacen en despreciarnos, que aún no somos nada —decía Martínez de Ballesteros encogiéndose de hombros—. Pero ya nos llegará la hora.»

If we are to dream of things impossible, let's dream big.

La vie n'est pas assez grande pour y faire entrer tout ce que le désir peut imaginer.

Ognuno di noi, ha bisogno di sogni per vivere.

Era, por lo demás, uno de esos hombres que prefieren asistir a su propia vida y consideran improcedente cualquier aspiración a vivirla.

Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.

I'm a girl. Every girl pretends she's a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. And I like the idea of 'happily ever after.

Always follow your dreams, don't let anyone tell you that you can't be something.

Sure of himself, convinced of his own power, certain that the laws which rule other men could not reach him, he went straight to the object he aimed at, even were this object were so elevated and so dazzling that it would have been madness for any other even to have contemplated it.

The young rarely believe that they will not be able to get what they want, because there is always an open future.

it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

I am glad you are pleased, said Mma Ramotswe. You have broken the glass ceiling that stops secretaries from reaching their full potential. Mma Makutsi looked up, as if to search for the ceiling that she had broken. There were only the familiar ceiling boards, fly-tracked and buckling from the heat. But the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel itself could not at that moment have been more glorious in her eyes, more filled with hope and joy.

We are all sent the dreams we yearn for, she thought; no matter how unhappy or fraught our waking world may be, we are sent dreams in which we can do the things the heart really wants us to do.

It was a warm evening, at least by the standards applied in Scotland, where summer is sometimes no more than a promise, an aspiration

A new master's course was being offered in community relations. He read the short paragraph extolling the usefulness and topicality of this course. He wondered whether it would help, or whether it was no more than an aspiration—a course in what might be, but wasn't. But at least they were trying; at least they were not instituting a new master's programme in cynicism and indifference.

like yearning to be a swan when you were demonstrably a bird of a different feather;

Mothers need to be ambitious for their children otherwise. . .well, nobody would ever learn the piano.

It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you—which unrealistic wish, to become the other, is such a true and revealing symptom of love, its most obvious clue, its unmistakable calling card.