Quotes about Aspiration

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and self-respect we can require no less of ourselves.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that.

But this was that view of human destiny which she had most passionately hated and rejected: the view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve. Her life and her values could not bring her to that, she thought; she had never found beauty in longing for the impossible and had never found the possible to be beyond her reach.

The world you desire can be won. It exists...it is real...it is possible...it's yours.

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

and the desire would never be satisfied, except by a being of equal greatness.

Let's be gods. Let's be ugly.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I love America not for what she is, but for what she can become.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.