Quotes about Aspiration

Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars.

We can be sure of talent; We can only pray for genius

For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise.

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

The follower aspires with all his strength to be what he admires. And then, remarkably enough, even though he lives amongst a 'Christian people,' he incurs the same peril as he did when it was dangerous to openly confess Christ. And because of the follower's life, it will become evident who the admirers are, for the admirers will become agitated with him. Even these words will disturb many - but then they must likewise belong to the admirers.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

If you are sufficient for your task it's too small.

Every man, whatsoever his condition, desires to be happy. There is no man who does not desire this, and each one desires it with such earnestness that he prefers it to all other things; whoever, in fact, desires other things, desires them for this end alone.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

All over the world men and women are looking wistfully to heaven.

Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.