Quotes about Aspiration

A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

We saw for a moment laid out among us the body of the complete human being whom we have failed to be, but at the same time, cannot forget.

How many men in a thousand million, he asked himself, reach Z after all?

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

My child, if I have any object in life, it is to provide for your being a good, a sensible, and a happy man. I am bent upon it.

He knew more of my intended career than I knew myself. I should be well enough educated for my destiny if I could "hold my own" with average young man in prosperous circumstances.

Clasped in my embrace, I held the source of every worthy aspiration I ever had; the centre of myself, the circle of my life, my own...my love of whom was founded on a rock!

the possessor of such great expectations,—farewell, monotonous acquaintances of my childhood, henceforth I was for London and greatness;

There's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they're not a-going—none of 'em—ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Set aside your dreams for your children and help them attain their own dreams.