Quotes about Aspiration

I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible ... what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.