Quotes About Aspiration

Our only purpose in life is to fulfill our potential.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

Quando tutto ti fa paura, hai bisogno di un sogno ancora più che di qualcosa da mangiare.

The depressed person…sees a big discrepancy between what he aspired to in terms of human relations and life goals and what he can achieve in this meager reality. He cannot solve the conflict. What is available is not acceptable to him, and what would be acceptable he cannot grasp. He experiences the tragic situation of having no choice.

the drive for power is potentially endless and boundless. Some people in search of power cannot conceive any limitation to it. Such people as Alexander the Great and Napoleon could have had all the wealth and sex they wanted in the early period of their political life, but they continued to seek more and more power.

Just because you don't know how on Earth something might be achieved doesn't mean you shouldn't allow yourself to really, really want it. That's the essence of a dream, the realms of magic and of miracles.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

Make no little plans," he urged. "They have no magic to stir men's blood.

sometimes dreams are all that can keep you going. Give them up, and you're dead.

You have to believe in your dreams because sometimes they believe in you.

You have to believe in dreams, because sometimes they believe in you.

That was the real triumph of the revolution, Napoleon thought with a slight nod. A man might rise as high as any on the basis of merit alone, and not because of some accident of birth. That was why France would win, in the end. For what nation could hope to stand against a nation of men free to pursue their ambitions?

Herzl concluded that Jews could never be safe without their own homeland. At first, this half-pragmatist, half-utopian dreamed of a Germanic aristocratic republic, a Jewish Venice ruled by a senate with a Rothschild as princely doge and himself as chancellor. His vision was secular: the high priests "will wear impressive robes"; the Herzl army would boast cuirassiers with silver breastplates; his modern Jewish citizens would play cricket and tennis in a modern Jerusalem.

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

Dreamers conquered the world long ago.

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.

Winter is for dreaming

Her dream was to become an artist—to be loved for moments beyond her own life.

Dreams are the unfinished wings of our souls.

Don't limit yourself. Think about a career that would give you pleasure or bring you satisfaction.

I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life.

Leaving a little puddle isn't what counts. It's making it in the big one.

A dream without willingness is just a nightmare.