Quotes About Aspiration

But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.

Bilin ki büyük hayatlara niyet edenler büyük günahlar?n kefaretini göze almal?..

And so it's equally hard for them to comprehend how that smallness might desperately crave to be part of a we that promises greatness.

Still, the first duty of a knight is to make the realm shine in the dreams of small boys—or where else will the knights of tomorrow arise, and what will become of the realm?

Once you achieve a certain level of success, no matter where you are, what you're doing, don't be content with that level. Push yourself to another level. People that are successful are always pushing.

Reagan had argued that Americans could escape poor living conditions if they so chose. All they needed to do was to "vote with their feet." They could just move along. Those who remained, he seemed to suggest, did so because they wanted to or were too lazy to aspire to something more. This was the lie.

Power mattered. But in the end, for Jimmy, what kind of human beings we aspired to be mattered more. And I am convinced he was absolutely right, especially for our after times.

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

You can have whatever you want if you dress for it.

You can have anything you want if you dress for it.

You can do anything you want in life if you dress for it.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Nothing less will content me, than whole America.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

There comes a time when a men desires to rise above fear.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

and attitudes that would enable and encourage attempts at

To kirk the nearer, from God more far,Has been an old-said saw.And he that strives to touch the stars,Oft stumbles at a straw.

And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.