Quotes About Aspiration

I aspire to nothing. Life wounds me. I feel uncomfortable where I am and uncomfortable where I think I could be.

Tenho sonhado mais que o que Napoleão fez. Tenho apertado ao peito hipotético mais humanidades do que Cristo, Tenho feito filosofias em segredo que nenhum Kant escreveu. Mas sou, e talvez serei sempre, o da mansarda, Ainda que não more nela;

Hacer, he ahí la inteligencia verdadera. Seré lo que quiera. Pero tengo que querer lo que sea. El éxito está en tener éxito, y no en tener condiciones para el éxito.

Every man, to be able to live and love, needs to idealize himself (and, ultimately, those he loves).

Querer é não poder. Quem pôde, quis antes de poder só depois de poder. Quem quer nunca há-de poder, porque se perde em querer.

If there's any justice in the Gods' injustice, then may they let us keep our dreams, even when they're impossible, and may our dreams be happy, even when they're trivial.

Recordemo-nos sempre de que sonhar é procurarmo-nos.

Though naturally ambitious, he savored the pleasure of having no ambitions at all.

The most contemptible thing about dreams is that everyone has them.

What grieves me is that my best is no good, and that another whom I dream of, if he existed, would have done it better.

Não sou nada. Nunca serei nada. Não posso querer ser nada. À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.»

Siempre he creído que la virtud estaba en obtener lo que no se alcanza, en vivir donde no se está, en estar más vivo después de muerto que cuando se estaba vivo, en conseguir, en fin, algo difícil, absurdo, en vencer, como un obstáculo, la propia realidad del mundo.

As a man of ideals, perhaps my greatest aspiration really does not go beyond occupying this chair at this table in this café.

Some have a great dream in life that they never accomplish. Others have no dream, and likewise never accomplish it.

Whenever my ambition, influenced by my dreams, raised up above the everyday level of my life, so that for a moment I seemed to soar, like a child on a swing, I always – like the child – had to come down to the public garden and face my defeat, with no flags to wave in battle and no sword I was strong enough to unsheath.

Let the Gods change my dreams, but not my gift for dreaming. — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics, 2002)

Tenho pensamentos que, se conseguisse realizá-los e torná-los vivos, acrescentariam uma nova luz às estrelas, uma nova beleza ao mundo e um maior amor ao coração dos homens.

Pobres semidioses novatos que conquistan imperios con la palabra y con la intención noble, pero necesitan dinero para pagar el cuarto y la comida!

The Gods are the incarnation of what we can never be. The weariness of all hypotheses …

El mundo es para quien nace para conquistarlo y no para quien sueña que puede conquistarlo, aunque tenga razón.

No soy nada. Nunca seré nada. No puedo querer ser nada. Aparté de esto, tengo en mí todos los sueños del mundo.

I want to be exactly like what I wanted to be and am not.

We worship perfection, because we cannot have it; and we would loathe it if we did. Perfection is inhuman, because to be human is to be imperfect.

Only slight goals are worth pursuing, because only a slight goal can be entirely fulfilled.