Quotes About Aspiration

Una ambigua insatisfacción —magnánima o mezquina— nos impide reposar. El proyecto actúa como un proyectil para horadar la realidad y ampliarla con lo posible. Ciertamente, la posibilidad puede ser feroz, pero en su origen es esperanzadora.

Uç, küçük kuÅŸum. Ä°yice yükseklere uç. En yukar?lara ç?k ve Tanr?'n?n parma??na kon. Tanr? seni baÅŸka bir çocuÄŸa götürecek ve nas?l bana güzel ÅŸark?lar ÅŸak?d?ysan ona da ÅŸak?yacaks?n. HoÅŸça kal güzel kuÅŸum!...' Ä°çimde sonsuz bir boÅŸluk hissettim.

Sólo cabe progresar cuando se piensa en grande, sólo es posible avanzar cuando se mira lejos.

El hombre mediocre que se aventura en la liza social tiene apetitos urgentes: el éxito. No sospecha que existe otra cosa, la gloria, ambicionada solamente por los caracteres superiores.

LA EMOCIÓN DEL IDEAL Cuando pones la proa visionaria hacia una estrella y tiendes el ala hacia tal excelsitud inasible, afanoso de perfección y rebelde a la mediocridad, llevas en ti el resorte misterioso de un Ideal. Es ascua sagrada, capaz de templarte para grandes acciones. Custódiala; si la dejas apagar no se reenciende jamás. Y si ella muere en ti, quedas inerte: fría bazofia humana.

Son prosaicos. No tienen afán de perfección: la ausencia de ideales impídeles poner en sus actos el grano de sal que poetiza la vida.

El coraje sentenció Lamartine- es la primera de las elocuencias, es la elocuencia del carácter". Noble decir. El que aspira a ser águila debe mirar lejos y volar alto; el que se resigna a arrastrarse como un gusano renuncia al derecho de protestar si lo aplastan.

But the poor and the indigent, who scarcely made enough money to keep body and soul together, and had to bribe petty bureaucrats, clerks, and guards to let them alone, did not sleep in the peace which romantic poets ascribe to them; perhaps such poets have never been poor.

Sons must aspire to be greater than their fathers, but at our apron-strings we only teach them to be children.

Day and night I always dream with open eyes.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

The youth is the hope of our future.

que nuestra ideología es sólo para consumo interno». El comunismo —o, más bien, la aspiración a construir el comunismo— había muerto con Jrushchov.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

For how few ambitious men are there, who have got as much fame as they desired, and whose thirst after it has not been as eager in the very height of their reputation, as it was before they became known and eminent among men?

I have but ninepence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Tis not in mortals to command success; but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.