Quotes About Aspiration

Everyone is looking up toward us, but I am looking back.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler

Unnumbered suppliants crowd Preferment's gate Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great; Delusive Fortune hears th' incessant call, They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

His wish still continued, but his hope grew less.

Self-confidence if the first requisite to great unertakings. - On Alexander Pope

It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good;

But I do not doubt that it is beneficial sometimes to contemplate in the mind, as in a picture, the image of a grander and better world; for if the mind grows used to the trivia of daily life, it may dwindle too much and decline altogether into worthless thoughts.

Our society celebrates nothing more than the overcoming of limitation – in sport, in science, in communications, in health. Every invention, every new world record, every new gadget is a sacrament of the deepest human desire of our age – to become free by transcending limitation, and thus, for a moment, believing we can withstand even death.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

In fact she herself once blamed me Kyprogeneia because I prayed this word: I want.

I would not think to touch the sky with two arms

And I'll dream about living there one day myself, about boats and bicycles and water, and a dog running next to me on the road, in the green, green afternoon light.

I'm allowed to have new dreams.

Why does she have wings?' So she can fly.

My dreams were dull as my everyday life.

She'd wanted so much for me: the moon and more. But maybe, right now, the moon was enough.

In that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.

I'll see you in Dreamland.