quotations about aspirations
New York is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.
H.L. MENCKEN
A Second Mencken Chrestomathy
And thou my mind aspire to higher things;
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
PHILIP SIDNEY
Leave Me, O Love
There's nothing wrong with having aspirations
Nothing wrong with walking tall
But if misfortune deals the consequences
Sooner or later, friend, you've got to fall
HÜSKER DÜ
"Friend You've Got to Fall"
Every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbor's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
The Crack-Up
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
JOHN MORLEY
Rousseau
Yet there be that by due steps aspire
To lay their just hands on that golden key
That opes the palace of Eternity.
JOHN MILTON
Comus
When you strip away all the layers one by one, not much remains to "discover." You will never find real meaning among your selfish interests, feelings, and aspirations. The answers do not lie within you.
JAMES C. DOBSON
Life on the Edge
Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.
JESSICA BRODY
Unremembered
Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends -- all these indicate a soul that recognizes the beckoning hand of the good Father who would call us homeward towards Himself -- all these are the ground and justification for a Christian discontent; but a murmuring, questioning, fault-finding spirit has direct and sympathetic alliance with nothing but the infernal.
JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND
Gold-foil, Hammered from Popular Proverbs
The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
One Word Is Too Often Profaned
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Work: A Story of Experience
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
WILLIAM BLAKE
"The Tiger"
Nemesis hangs over men who are overbold in aspiration, whether, like Prometheus, they devise methods and expedients for alleviation of common ills, or, as Io, indulge in building castles in the air.
JOHN KEBLE
Lectures on Poetry
Your aspirations, unable to stretch
Beyond the barriers of what's expected
As the free thought you were born with
Becomes externally polluted
NAPALM DEATH
"Mentally Murdered"