Quotes About Aspiration

I want to do something splendid... Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead... I think I shall write books.

William Avery Rockefeller possessed the dash and virility that every young boy dreams of in a father.

I had planned to write the great American novel, having the Standard Oil Company as a backbone!

John never aspired to popularity at the school.

Nobody ever accused Gates of thinking small.

No wonder I want to be Robert Mitchum: big, strong, super-cool, with those Freon eyes of his. That's who I was pretending to be a minute ago - Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. - Ben

Libenter homines id quad volunt credunt." "Men are glad to believe that which they wish for?" Miss Calicut asked. Professor

Charles Dickens, visiting the United States five years earlier, had described Washington as "the City of Magnificent Intentions,"12 with "spacious avenues, that begin in nothing, and lead nowhere; streets, mile-long, that only want houses, roads, and inhabitants; public buildings that need but a public to be complete.

But he was not a writer, and never would be. Try as he might, he only succeeded in putting honest words on the rack, leaving them screaming, though of this he was happily unconscious.

America is too great for small dreams.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

If we're free to dare – and we are – if we're free to give – and we are – then we're free to shape the future and have within our grasp all that we dream the future will be.

La insatisfacción de los humanos, ese querer siempre algo más, algo mejor, algo distinto, es el origen de innumerables desdichas.

Hay que convertir la vida en un sueño y volver realidad los sueños.

Ya lo señaló la formidable (y depresiva) Clarice Lispector: «La vocación es diferente del talento. Se puede tener vocación y no tener talento. Es decir, se puede ser llamado sin saber cómo ir».

Agg'ié nagné 'eggins anyg nein'yié. [What I do shows me what I am seeking.] —Sulagnés, artist from the planet Gnío

la realidad, aunque rebelde, termina por parecerse a nuestros sueños, si éstos se sueñan con la suficiente perseverancia.

Ahí reside nuestra grandeza: aun conociendo nuestra insignificancia, aspiramos al máximo. Lo que nos humaniza, lo que nos diferencia de los animales, es precisamente esa desfachatada ambición de ser felices. De controlar nuestras vidas y convertirnos en nuestros propios dioses.

most of what Man does, moment to moment, is for his imagined future, for the coming time, in which he will be happier than in time present.

Olennaista ei enää ole se, keitä olemme, vaan millaisiksi tahdomme tulla.

inside of three months had made his way from humble circumstances to the very front rank of American airmen.

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

if I want a crown I must go and hunt it for myself.

If you can dream and not make dreams your master