Quotes About Aspiration

It's a curse, you know, to be able to look higher than you're allowed to reach.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

The world you desire can be won. It exists...it is real...it is possible...it's yours.

and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.

It is not proper for man's life to be a circle, she thought, or a string of circles dropping off like zeros behind him—man's life must be a straight line of motion from goal to farther goal, each leading to the next and to a single growing sum.

You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I—I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself.

there's something in me that knows of a life I've never lived, the kind of a life no one has ever lived, but should." "You know it? Why don't you live it?

Let's be gods. Let's be ugly.

everything that lifts people above their fellows arouses both emulation and jealousy.

A dream will always triumph over reality , once it is given a chance..

El hombre que no cuenta con ningún objetivo en la vida, tiene que creárselo».

Es kann keinen Flug geben ohne vorangegangene Träume vom Fliegen.

He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it." The quotation is from The Great Gatsby

The very fact that we long for the change we do is a sign that we are meant to have it.

Dream. You have permission to dream. And besides, if you don't have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?

Ci vuole un gran fisico per correre dietro ai sogni

Sessant'anni prima aveva più speranze, ma dormiva in un letto gelato. Cosa scegliere tra i sogni e il termosifone?

A lumbering soul but trying to fly...

The thing that makes you say, I want to do something - that is the beginning of talent.

You should want to act only because you want to be led to something bigger in life.