quotations about aspirations
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
BERNARD SHAW
Candida
You can't seal fate with a kick
You should know it doesn't work that way
As for your lofty aspirations
You couldn't give them all away (throw away)
SOUL ASYLUM
"Broken Glass"
'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do.
ROBERT BROWNING
Saul
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
EMMA GOLDMAN
Living My Life
I could hear the mild voice of my Companion pointing the moral of my vision, and stimulating me to aspire, and to teach others to aspire.
EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT
Flatland
wastelands of regret like you could never imagine
trying hard to forget defeated aspirations
but each day your hands shake in fear of what comes next
what comes next
INDECISION
"Through the Wasteland Go Searching We"
Aspiration is like a single ray that pierces the darkness of the soil, the unconscious, and makes contact with the outer or greater light. Inner light aspires to outer light and a sense of completion is felt.
STEPHANIE SORRELL
Nature as Mirror
Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet.
JEREMY BENTHAM
Deontology
I see, but cannot reach, the height
That lies forever in the light,
And yet forever and forever,
When seeming just within my grasp,
I feel my feeble hands unclasp,
And sink discouraged into night!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
The Golden Legend
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
SAKI
Reginald
The restless throbbings and burnings
That hope unsatisfied brings;
The weary longings and yearnings
For the mystical better things.
A.L. GORDON
Wormwood and Nightshade
What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me:
A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale.
ROBERT BROWNING
Rabbi Ben Ezra
My own thoughts
Are my companions; my designs and labors
And aspirations are my only friends.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
The Masque of Pandora
A fierce unrest seethes at the core
Of all existing things:
It was the eager wish to soar
That gave the gods their wings....
There throbs through all the worlds that are
This heart-beat hot and strong,
And shaken systems, star by star,
Awake and glow in song.
DON MARQUIS
Unrest
My aspirations
Always exceed my grasp
You've got to reach a little bit higher
When the light within becomes a fire
Hey hey woa -- oh you got to grow
You've got to reach a little bit higher
To get a hold on all that you desire
Stretch your soul and you'll never grow old
NEW GRASS REVIVAL
"Reach"
Patience is my ally
Design should not be rushed
Aspirations long forgotten
Never left my mind
CANNIBAL CORPSE
"The Discipline of Revenge"
Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.
BAHA'U'LLAH
Proclamation of Baha'u'llah
Illuminating love falls from the skies
To water the illusions in our eyes
All that we desire and all we fear
All our aspirations grow unclear
THIEVERY CORPORATION
"All That We Percieve"
Get in touch with your inner most desire and aspirations, then utilise the power of your heart to create a life of bliss.
STEVEN REDHEAD
Unleash the Power of Your Heart and Mind
Press on!--for in the grave there is no work
And no device--Press on! while yet ye may!
N.P. WILLIS
Press On!