Quotes About Aspiration

I recognized others' abilities as well. But in any career, whether it's that of a TV repairman, a musician, a secretary—or a surgeon—an individual must believe in himself and in his abilities. To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.

one day, "you've found your chosen field, and you're already moving into it.

seriously evaluating my gifts and talents—an important step when choosing a career.

Acho que o Santo Graal é um sonho que os homens têm, um sonho de que é possível tornar o mundo perfeito. Se ele existisse, todos nós teríamos sabido que o sonho não pode se transformar em realidade.

When you are young and powerless you dream of possessing mystical strength, and once you are grown and strong you condemn lesser folk to that same dream

Since I can't be a professional on account of lack of education I wouldn't mind being wealthy.

Anch'io sono consapevole del cattivo uso che ho fatto della mia vita, di come passa in fretta e di come la butto via. Pretendo da me più di quello che ottengo, forse più di quello che ho ottenuto. Siamo due falliti, signor Levin?»

Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams. Because it is.

Democracy: stored up in heaven; but unhappily has not yet been communicated to us.

You must want to be more than you once were, and more than you are now. Something unfamiliar is required of each of us. We must sow our seeds in frozen ground to be able to harvest in spring.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Truth is for the gods; from our human point of view, it is an ideal, towards which we can approximate, but which we cannot hope to reach.

Man needs, for his happiness, not merely the enjoyment of this or that, but hope, and enterprise and change.

Casual experience of life is of very little use to a specialist, such as I aspire to be; good manners are absolutely useless.

Modern Protestants who urge us to believe in God, for the most part, despise the old 'proofs', and base their faith upon some aspect of human nature—emotions of awe or mystery, the sense of right and wrong, the feeling of aspiration, and so on. This way of defending religious belief was invented by Rousseau. It has become so familiar that his originality may easily not be appreciated by a modern reader, unless he will take the trouble to compare Rousseau with (say) Descartes or Leibniz.

While animals are content with existence and reproduction, men desire also to expand, and their desires in this respect are limited only by what imagination suggests as possible.

Bookmakers tread on each other's toes, on mine, on anybody's, or stand flat-footed scowling at scraps of paper clutched like passports to El Dorado.

You have, to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,—why, I guess you've got to dream a garden.

There are no impossible dreams, just our limited perception of what is possible.

Desiring is a part of dreaming.

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.

People are dying to get a National Award... it's a national reputation.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'