Quotes About Aspiration

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

Yet some there be that by due steps aspireTo lay their just hands on that golden keyThat opes the palace of Eternity.

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

Well, Chum, the poor man's Bing Crosby is still making with the throat here in Chi. but if the present good fortune keeps up I ought to be getting the New York break pretty soon.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

Human beings are sometimes slaves to the ugly and weak sides of human nature," he told employees. "However, if you set high goals for yourselves and every day continue to reflect on them, step by step you will be more focused and make yourself a better human being, becoming a happier person for it.

When your dreams are big enough the odds just don't matter.

One night a father overheard his son pray: "Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is." Later that night, the father prayed, "Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be." —Anonymous

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.

Many younger elite Sri Lankans,especially young Tamils, have capitalised on foreign university credentials and their parents' dwindling wealth to escape from the daily stress and tragedy of life on the island.

we want to get our dreams, we need to sacrifice everything that we have in order to reach it.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Dream with a purpose

Mai looked around, marveling at the nearly finished paintings on the stairwell's walls.....Mai wished that she could create something as beautiful. She was certain that to create such beauty, the painter must have laughed many times.

They's movement now. People moving. We know why, an' we know how. Movin' 'cause they got to. That's why folks always move. Movin' 'cause they want somepin better'n what they got. An' that's the on'y way they'll ever git it.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable.