Quotes About Aspiration

Making money does not seem to me a very elevating ambition

I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more.

The goal toward which I surpass myself must appear to me as a point of departure toward a new act of surpassing.

Recordemos que el hombre es trascendencia; lo que reclama, no lo reclama sino para superarlo.

If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

The idea of a person's being a thing ... constantly aspiring to be ... and never achieving it--here, surely, is death but death spread out over a whole lifetime; here, surely is life, but life that death congeals before abolishing.

Street, and she was able to give Elmer the three hundred

She watched the hulk of marriage drifting down on her frail speed-boat of aspiration, and steered in desperate circles.

I don't mean to say we're perfect. We've got a lot to do in the way of extending the paving of motor boulevards, for, believe me, it's the fellow with four to ten thousand a year, say, and an automobile and a nice little family in a bungalow on the edge of town, that makes the wheels of progress go round!

Oh, Sam, my dear, but I'm so grasping! I want the whole world, not just Zenith! I DON'T want to be a good wife and mother and play cribbage prettily! I want splendor! Great horizons!

He wandered to the window. In that blast of snow, the shaft of the Plymouth National Bank Building was aspiring as a cathedral; twenty gray stories, with unbroken vertical lines swooping up beyond his vision into the snowy fog. It had nobility, but it seemed cruel, as lone and contemptuous of friendly human efforts as a forgotten tower on the Siberian steppes. How indifferently it would watch him starve and freeze!

In one hand I have a dream, and in the other I have an obstacle. Tell me, which one grabs your attention?

Teach self denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.

All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.

I'm Cinderella. No, I'm better than Cinderella, because she only got the prince, didn't she? I'm Cinderella with fab teeth and a shit-hot job.

Because it's human nature to hope for impossible things.

Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.

That girl is going to go far. I have no idea in which direction- but she'll go far

So why do they hope ?' I can't help asking. 'Because it's human nature to hope for impossible things.

The option I'd really like, he says matter-of-factly, is to build a life with you. A strong, put-together kind of life. I know you're pretty good at assembly yourself, probably better than I am, in fact. So maybe it could be... a joint project?

And the point is, it's something to aspire to, something to hope for. One day my life will match my Instagram posts. One day!

The possibilities in my head are getting more and more far-fetched, but I can't give up on them.

Because it's human nature to hope for impossible things." She eyes me shrewdly. "You're in marketing. You know that.

Full equity partnership is the highest pinnacle, way above the first rung of partnership. It's the most prestigious job in law. I never, ever, ever expected that.