Quotes About Aspiration

My hopes were never brighter than now.

Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog; but, feed and clothe him well, - work him moderately - surround him with physical comfort, - and dreams of freedom intrude. Give him a bad master, and he aspires to a good master; give him a good master, and he wishes to become his own master.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

If a slave has a bad master, his ambition is to get a better; when he gets a better, he aspires to have the best; and when he gets the best, he aspires to be his own master.

You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedom's swift-winged angels, that fly round the world; I am confined in bands of iron! O that I were free!

I wanted to be another Nat Turner; and if I did not look out, I should get as many balls into me, as Nat did into him. Thus ended the infant Sabbath school, in the town of St. Michael's.

Feet, what do I need them for If I have wings to fly.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Keep sacred your highest hope!

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

You go above and beyond them: but the higher you climb, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. And he who flies is hated most of all.

We have invented the concept "goal": in reality, goals are absent . . .

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

He who cannot find the way to HIS ideal, lives more frivolously and shamelessly than the man without an ideal.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Stay not where the lowlands are! Climb not into the sky! The world looks best by far when viewed from halfway high.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Ainda agora o mundo é livre para as almas grandes. Para os que vivem solitários ou aos pares ainda há muitos sítios vagos onde se aspira a fragrância dos mares silenciosos.

One who reaches his ideal has by so doing gone beyond it.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

When the will loves anything that is below it in dignity, it degrades itself.