Quotes about Aspiration

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration

he wanted so much to live...

Now he'd bought a new suit to go back in; blue with pencil stripes, vest and all—eleven dollars on Third Avenue, with a watch and watch chain, and a portable typewriter with which he was going to start writing in a Denver rooming house as soon as he got a job there.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.