Quotes about Aspirations

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltiness of those dead sea apples.

We just fundamentally forgot that people want to vote for something positive. They want to be shown what the good life for them personally looks like.

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

Since God often sends us inspirations by means of His angels, we should frequently return our aspirations to him by means of the same messengers.

My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird.