Quotes About Aspiration

Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress of wrongs, the advancement of right, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue, to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice?

These things shall be—a loftier raceThan e'er the world hath known shall riseWith flame of freedom in their souls,And light of knowledge in their eyes.

Just remember that the goal is for us to capture all we want

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

There is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there is the foreknowledge of immanent distance. Such drawings aspire to be both a secret rendezvous and an au revoir! Alternately and ad infinitum.

In the imaginative movement which prompts the impulse to draw repeats implicitly the same pattern...there is a symbiotic desire to get closer and closer, to enter the self of what is being drawn, and, simultaneously, there is the foreknowledge of immanent distance. Such drawings aspire to be both a secret rendezvous and a au-revoir! Alternately and at infinitum.

version, though it fell somewhat short of the mood of, say, the last scene of "Die Meistersinger,

It is not strength, but desire, that governs the world.

We have arrived where we are because of all that lies behind us. Finally, effective worship asks us to stretch forward. It has a dimension of aspiration.

Good worship will strive for height.

Aside from the giddy high school feelings, real love makes you: Feel a desire to achieve Feel inspired to do your best Want to make the most of yourself Think your noblest thoughts Aspire to your finest deeds Wish you were better than you are

a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. . . . Always have something ahead of you to 'look forward to'—to work for and hope for

We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves.

We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For what man is not disposed to rest in himself?

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

Discovering what your goals are can be the toughest part of achieving them.

This morning I had not so much as carfare. Now I am here, on velvet. You are itching to learn of this haven; you would like to organize trips here, spoil it, send your relations-in-law, perhaps even come yourself. After all, this journal will hardly fall into your hands till I am dead. I'll tell you. I am at Bracey's Giant Emporium, as happy as a mouse in the middle of an immense cheese, and the world shall know me no more.

But no one on either side ever forgot that the law was white. Justice might be blind, but the law wasn't. Justice was aspirational, but the law was actual. The law was real. It had uniforms, and weapons. It smelt of sweat and tobacco. It drove a big car with a star on the door. White people had justice. Black folks had the law.

Each man dreams his own heaven.

If you're going to go somewhere, you have to believe you can get there. Somehow, some way.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Hunger not to have, but to be

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.