Quotes about Aspiration

I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy.

Of course, we also have to play in concert halls. This is our dream when you are a musician - to play in a good, comfortable hall with a wonderful acoustic.

By nature, men desire the beautiful.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed. *Fantine

Misery, we repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.

Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.

Venerate the man, whoever he may be, who has this sign—the starry eye.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

It means what you are, wanting what you want and going after it without a sens od shame. People are slaves to rules.

All human beings have always aspired to an idyll, to that garden where nightingales sing, to that realm of harmony where the world does not rise up as a stranger against man and man against other men, but rather where the world and all men are shaped from one and the same matter. There, everyone is a note in a sublime Bach fugue, and anyone who refuses to be one is a mere useless and meaningless black dot that need only be caught and crushed between thumb and finger like a flea.