Quotes About Aspiration

I crave for mental exaltation.

Some times we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

Young girls hope all sorts of foolish things, Sayuri. Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

Sometimes we go through the worst time by imaging how the world would be if our dreams come true.

Sencillamente no me gusta tener delante de mí lo que no puedo alcanzar.

We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can see.

It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for a two week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And still-that's how you build a future.

HAPPY: All right, boy. I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have-- to come out number-one man.

I'm one-dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldn't raise it. A buck an hour! Do you gather my meaning? I'm not bringing home any prizes anymore and you're going to stop waiting for me to bring them home!

to go, Pop. Every muscle is ready. WILLY [at the edge of the apron]: You realize what

Gotta break your neck to see a star in this yard.

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

No man becomes this or that by wishing to be it, however earnestly.

We take no pleasure in existence except when we are striving after something.

El individuo es un vaso harto frágil para contender la aspiración infinita de la voluntad de la especie, concentrada en un objeto determinado.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just another way of living.

The busker glowed with Prime-Time Happiness, and for a few moments, deprivation took a backseat. It had been his dream to sing on the Donahue show, he said, not realizing that he had just been robbed of that too.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.

She envied the confidence and poise of the women she saw behind the desk.

the encounter somehow made the goal seem attainable.

Whereas today people often understate their age to census takers, studies of past censuses have revealed that they used to overstate it. The dignity of old age was something to which everyone aspired.

Our visions begin with our desires.