Quotes About Aspiration

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy; finally it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.

Dreams have as much influence as actions.

Your dream died? Fine. Give it a decent burial and dream a new dream.

Jedermann will seinen Platz an der Sonne. (Wenn's geht, im Schatten.)

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

I've never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, 'don't try to fly too high,' or whether it might also be thought of as 'forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

Let's give our slave a big dream. A big future.

The desire to ascend in the social scale does not make itself felt until the intellect awakens. Up to the tenth, and often up to the fifteenth year, almost every child belonging to a well-to-do family envies its proletarian schoolmates, to whom so many things are permissible which for the "respectable" are placed under taboo.

Cómo no iban a apodersarse los deliriros de grandeza de un campesino del Banato si de pronto, a los veintiún años, con sólo mover unas figuritas sobre un tablero de madera, ganaba más en una semana que su pueblo entero en todo un año de talar bosques y realizar las tareas más duras?

Pero ¡Quién sabe!: Lo que aún no es, bien podría llegar a ser algún día

Sadece yukar? ve yukar? bakt?m; orada ???k vard?, orada ev vard?, orada sen vard?n, oras? benim dünyamd?.

It is generally assumed that getting rich is a Jew's true and typical aim in life. Nothing could be further from the truth. Getting rich, to a Jew, is only an interim stage, a means to his real end, by no means his aim in itself. The true desire of a Jew, his inbuilt ideal, is to rise to a higher social plane by becoming an intellectual.

Dreams can still come true you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as  Persuasion, but with a modern setting, of course. For the next thirty years or so I shall be collecting material for it. If anyone asks me what I work at, I shall say, 'Collecting material'. No one can object to that. Besides, so I shall be.

going to the kingdom of cocaine, it was going to Hollywood...

what with the Rastows having a house—all at once my father was agitating for a house of our own. He put it to my mother. "We ain't poor, so why should we live like we are?" My mother sent up a wail. "Leave Miss Brookie?" One thing my mother kept hold of: There was to be

The goal had been important only for the sake of finding the path to it.

If I go to Stanfurd, I can get a good job and not have to sell oranges by the side of the highway.

Climb every mountain , Ford Every stream Follow every rainbow ,'Till you find your dream

There are no small parts, only small actors.' You have a big part and you just need to let yourself grow into it.

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.