Quotes About Aspiration

And now it is as we wanted it.

Poor people don't want to stay poor. But there's a misconception that it's somehow unfair to poor people, or, worse, racist, to let them in on the main secret of wealthy, educated and successful people: smaller families mean larger lives.

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

The visions we offer our children shape the future.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But the history of science — by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans — teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are.

Our particular causality scheme has brought us to a modest and rudimentary, although in many respects heroic, series of explorations. But it is far inferior to what might have been, and may one day be.

All her life, dreams had been her friends. Her dreams were unusually detailed, well-structured, colorful.

And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Désirer, cela consiste à vouloir occuper un espace plus grand que celui qui vous est offert

We should not be less than what we are.

What mattered was removing himself from his present existence in an effort to find his future.

It didn't hurt to consider things that might one day be. Or even things that might never be.

It is not nearly so important to know who you are as who you might be.

We shouldn't have to accept it, either. Mostly, we don't. We understand the odds are against us, but we still strive for something more. We make our best effort each time out because now and then we get exactly what we want.

Besides, reality did not require that you forgo your dreams, and dreams sometimes revealed paths that led to new realities.

Make sure the shadow you chase is not the one you cast.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

Vimes had never mastered ambition. It was something that happened to other people.