Quotes about Aspiration
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
— Elbert Hubbard
We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
— Victor Hugo
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
— William Hazlitt
The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.
— Charles Spurgeon
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.
— GK Chesterton
Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.
— CS Lewis
I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
— Dolly Parton
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.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.
— Henry David Thoreau
To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
— Henry David Thoreau
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.
— Henry David Thoreau