Quotes on Aspiration

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

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

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It became perfectly clear to him that he could entertain no hope of finding in someone else the same aspirations and antipathies; no hope of linking up with a mind which, like his own, took pleasure in a life of studious decrepitude; no hope of associating an intelligence as sharp and wayward as his own with any author or scholar.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Inspiration follows aspiration.

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.