Quotes About Aspiration

After so much time spent in painful labor, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.

Do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose. My life might have passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.

I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater then his nature will allow.

Be a man, or be more than a man.

Success shall crown my endeavors. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

Richard, marked for misery and defeat, acknowledged that power which sentiment possesses to exalt us—to convince us that our minds, endowed with a soaring, restless aspiration, can find no repose on earth except in love.

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

Seek happiness in tranquillity, and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.

Y ahora la vida es lo único que codiciamos: que este autómata de carne, con sus miembros y articulaciones en buen estado, pueda ejecutar sus funciones, que la morada de su alma sea capaz de contener a su habitante. Nuestras mentes, que antes viajaban lejos a través de incontables esferas ? combinaciones infinitas, se recluían ahora tras los muros de la carne y aspiraban solo a conservar su bienestar. Sin duda era bastante lo que nos habíamos degradado.

All my speculations and hopes are as nothing; and, like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.

when the masters of the science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand:

Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell.

how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become so greater than his nature will allow

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.

Ii isn't thet if you become Hokage, everyone will acknowldege you. It's the ones who are acknowledged that can become Hokage.

If you want to conquer the world, do it in your own free time. I'm after something bigger, something much bigger. - Sasuke Uchiha

American political conversation had become a space free from imagination and aspiration. Rather than talk about the future, we talked about policy; rather than talk about what's right and just, we talked about what's realistic and lawful; rather than discuss values, we discussed strategies. It was this dull, neutral, largely hollow space that Trump so easily filled with his crudeness, cruelty, and lies.

America was the very definition of modernity; it was the country that Russia had failed to become.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

All she wanted was for me to have a dream, a direction, to stop drifting. She wasn't the only one. I wanted me to stop drifting—still do.

Some days it just feels like I'm here for the shoes and the eternal hope that I shall be issued minions.