Aspiration Quotes

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them,--that it was a vain endeavor?

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Let's not build the policy around the abuse. That's not good policy. That's actually bad policy. Build the policy around the aspiration point. That's what we need to do when we're seeing abuse online.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration.

There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.

That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

I am nothing but I must be everything.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Inspiration follows aspiration.

Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.

When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.

Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

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

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Happiness is a myth we seek,If manifested surely irks;Like river speeding to the plain,On its arrival slows and murks.For man is happy only inHis aspiration to the heights;When he attains his goal, he coolsAnd longs for other distant flights.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

To me, I feel that my game is strong. I feel as thought I'm a shining prince, just like Malcolm, and I feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like princes, then whatever we want can be ours. Anything.