Quotes About Aspiration

Flying is desire fulfilled.

A sense of growth is so important to happiness that it's often preferable to be progressing to the summit rather than to be at the summit.

A sense of growth is so important to happiness that it's often preferable to be progressing to the summit rather than to be at the summit. Neither a scientist nor a philosopher but a novelist, Lisa Grunwald, came up with the most brilliant summation of this happiness principle: "Best is good, better is best.

And of course, arriving at one goal usually reveals another, yet more challenging goal. Publishing the first book means it's time to start the second. There's another hill to climb. The challenge, therefore, is to take pleasure in the "atmosphere of growth

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

striving after goals—that is, growth—that brings happiness.

phrase from James Collins and Jerry Porras's book Built to Last: "BHAG—Big Hairy Audacious Goals, all the way. I resisted this for years, thinking that to shoot too high only meant I would fail. What I didn't realize was that shooting high motivated me much more.

I later changed my passwords to a goal I've been working on, or an achievement I want.

Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner courage and live the life of your dreams.

I believe that if someone always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

This was how they wished they had been: each was creating an ideal into which he was now fitting his past life.

Chaque soir, quand sa besogne était finie, il regagnait sa mansarde, et il cherchait dans les livres de quoi justifier ses rêves.

I call on your pride. Remember what you've done, what you dream of doing, and rise up. Great Heavens, consider yourself with more respect!

For this was how they would have wished to be, each setting up an ideal to which they were now adapting their past life. Besides, speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment.

J'ai rêvé la gloire quand j'étais tout enfant, et maintenant je n'ai même plus l'orgueil de la médiocrité.

Ils l'avaient manquée tous les deux, celui qui avait rêvé l'amour, celui qui avait rêvé le pouvoir. Quelle en était la raison ?

She hoped for a son; he would be strong and dark; she would call him George; and this idea of having a male child was like an expected revenge for all her impotence in the past. A man, at least, is free; he may travel over passions and over countries, overcome obstacles, taste of the most far-away pleasures. But a woman is always hampered.

AMBITION – Always preceded by "mad" when it lacks nobility.

Er träumte sich sein Pariser Zimmer aus. Dort wollte er das Leben eines Bohémien führen. Gitarre wollte er spielen lernen, einen Schlafrock tragen, dazu ein Samtbarett und Hausschuhe aus blauem Plüsch. Und über dem Kamin sollten zwei gekreuzte Floretts hängen, ein Totenschädel darüber und die Gitarre darunter. Wundervoll!

A la fi, pensarien a situar-la: li trobarien algun xicot de posició assegurada; la faria feliç.

BALLOONS – With balloons we will end up going to the moon. We shan't be able to navigate them any time soon.

Beauty is the object of all my efforts.

Elle aurait voulu que ce nom de Bovary, qui était le sien, fût illustre, le voir étalé chez les libraires, répété dans les journaux, connu par toute la France. Mais Charles n'avait point d'ambition

Emma se sentí satisfeta interiorment creient que havia assolit d'un sol cop aquell rar ideal propi de les existències pàl·lides al qual els cors mediocres no podran arribar mai.