Quotes About Aspiration

High characters (cries one), and he would seeThings that ne'er were, nor are, nor ne'er will be.

A passionate desire for posthumous glory was a leading motive for men of the Renaissance, whatever their calling.

He did not so much follow his father's example as his father's vision.

The deal fell through, but what emerged was Raskob's desire to outdo Chrysler in his new real estate venture. Raskob wanted a building that would literally and figuratively put Walter Chrysler's building in the shade. But nobody at the time could say with any certainty how high the Chrysler Building would be.

wonder possible.

She had taken voice and piano lessons for ten years as a child, had considered a career as a singer before the lure of space grew too strong.

Will have been! A truly stratospheric verb.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

a quotation from the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset as an epigraph for Stoner: "A hero is one who wants to be himself.

it led his eyes outward and upward into the sky, where he looked as if toward a possibility for which he had no name.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

A man obtains only what he strives for. He

Like all parents she is dichotomous, what she really wants is a child genius who is perfectly normal.

the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructively in large units. They aspired greedily, and then refused to face the responsibilities they had created. They created vast problems, and then buried their heads in the sands of idle faith.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

I have nothing to lose. I am going to dare it. I will aim for the sun.

A poet and a doctor. Maybe I could. This the first thought I have of it. Maybe I could.

It is possible there are some things you want so badly that you will change your life to make them happen.

He said little about his dream but he nourished it in his heart as the best place for a dream to grow.

It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.