aspirations Quotes

“Our ego wants the ideas and the fact that we aspire to do something about them to be enough.”

“Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. ”

“I wanted to be a great man.”

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.”

“Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. ”

“He felt that he was leaving behind him his chance of being a certain type of artist. It seemed so much more important to be a certain sort of man.”

“As I started to think seriously about how I could become the person I wanted to be, I looked around at some of the people who’d had the biggest impact on my life.”

“I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought.”

“I aspire to be an old man with an old wife laughing at old jokes from a wild youth.”

“And now you’re becalmed. Just like I was at your age. Wouldn’t think to look at me I was bright as a dollar once, would you? But I was. Wanted to make something of myself. But I didn’t have a chance. Taken out of school, I was. Just like you.”